Trade Laws Quotes

Foreigners, when they come to trade with a nations, make themselves temporary citizens, and tacitly consent to be bound by the same laws.

The laws of trade must be the great teacher.

We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law, intellectual property rights, lower their taxes to our barriers, that's good for us, and that is something that I do believe that President [Donald] Trump agrees with.

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

They [the Dutch] have in their greatest Councils of State and War, trading Merchants that have lived abroad in most parts of the World; who have not only the Theoretical Knowledge, but the Practical Experience of Trade, by whom Laws and Orders are contrived, and Peaces with foreign Princes projected, to the great advantage of their Trade.

When you look at a company like Amazon, one of the reasons that Amazon is one of the most powerful companies in the world is because we want to buy cheap stuff. If Donald Trump were to change trade laws, we couldn't buy the cheap stuff or in our Wal-Marts, they would cost a whole lot more.

I think that they are hung up on, you know, that people cheat and we don't enforce the laws, and I think that's correct. But I don't think people want to just say, "We're not going to trade with anybody."

In a trading nation, the bent of all the laws should tend to the encouragement of commerce, and all measures should be there taken, with a due regard to its interest and advancement.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

I intend to be vehement in my enforcement of the [foreign trade] laws. We've got to stop getting rolled.