John Redwood Quotes

Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

A protective tariff would be collected only from those whose pride, whose abundance of means, prompts them to spurn manufacturers of our own country ...

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

We must now place the manufacturer beside the agriculturalist... The grand inquiry now is, shall we manufacture our own comforts, or go without them at the will of a foreign nation. He, therefore, who is now against domestic manufacturers must be for reducing us to dependence on that nation, or to be clothed in skins and live like wild beasts in dens and caverns. I am proud to say I am not one of these.

Petitions poured in upon Congress urging the imposition of discriminating duties that should encourage the production of needed things at home.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

As the Bank of England has noted, Brexit is a unique experiment in the reimposition of protectionist barriers to trade.

I'm not talking about autarky. I'm not crazy. We need an intelligent protectionism.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

Demanding freedom of access to other markets isn't protectionism, it's free trade.

We ought not to depend in the degree we have done on supplies from other countries

A nation imports from a distance a manufactured commodity, which it is granted it could make as cheap, or cheaper, at home, were the manufacture introduced there. To introduce the manufacture is, however, too expensive a project to be carried into effect by any private individual. The whole society might do so, through the expenditure for a few years of a portion of its revenue, much less than what an equal number of years succeeding them will return to it in the diminished cost of the article.

The United States should adopt a protective tariff of such a character as will help the struggling industries of Europe to get on their feet.

I believe in the protective tariff and the protective tariff policy of our country.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

I strongly suspect that there would be a positive economic advantage to the U.K. in leaving the single market.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

I would love to help the textile sector, but at the same time, a big red flag is held by the automotive parts and automotive sector. They don't want to open up to the European Union.