Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.

The closest we can come to free trade is illuminating the barriers to free trade.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

It's not just free trade verses protectionism any longer, you've got the concepts of managed trade and reciprocity, and environmental issues.

The thing that we have to worry about is this protectionist movement that has reared its head again in this country

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

Nobody is more conservative when it comes to trade than I am.

Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

Clinton is someone who understands trade, who understands we want more of it, but we want it under a different set of rules.

I have never worshipped at the altar of free trade, but I've always been an advocate of free trade.

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people.