Charles Bass Quotes

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

I believe the Japanese set ceilings on what they will buy from foreign companies.

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

President Trump insists on fairness and reciprocity in U.S.-China relations.

By offshoring the production of their products, U.S. corporations transferred technology, physical plant, and business knowhow to China.

If a foreign country can make a good cheaper than we can better buy it from them.

China has become the export destination of preference for most of the world.

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

A trade war between the U.S. and China would hurt both countries, but there is reason to believe that the U.S. has more to lose. Today, 80% of global trade comprises international supply chains,” she writes. “Declining trade costs have allowed firms to splinter their production lines geographically, with goods processed and value added in multiple countries along the chain. If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the U.S….

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.