David Autor Quotes

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

We have little of no inflation in manufacturing goods because more and more we buy products from abroad at very cheap prices.

China must voluntarily cut back on exports to America otherwise American politics will become unmanageable.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.

By definition, by reducing our trade deficit we will be hurting consumers. Consumers are always better off with a trade deficit.

Tariff policy is no longer a question of raising revenue or protecting domestic manufacturing. It is the executive's instrument of foreign policy.

Free tariff or no tariff would close up our manufactories by the scores.

Free trade ideas often look great in prospect but less in retrospect.

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

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

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

When someone says, `Let's impose tariffs on foreign imports,' it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while it works - but only for a short time....over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs.

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

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

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

I have long been a vocal advocate of reciprocal free trade though that position did not endear me to my own political party. And I continue to strongly believe in free and fair international trade.

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.