Nirmala Sitharaman Quotes

Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.

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

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.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

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.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

Foreign trade can no longer be dealt with apart from other domestic economic policies and concerns. Governments often employ trade policies less for commercial ends than to achieve other goals- economic, political, and social.

Liberalization of trade barriers are essential for long-term global growth.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

Perhaps the globalization potion is too strong for us today; it should be watered down with some measure of economic nationalism.

We have not addressed the effects of global economics where we are the only free traders in town.

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

Free trade: certainly the interest of nations, but by no means the interest of certain towns and districts, which tariff feeds fat; and the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.

It is difficult to overcome protectionism when times are bad.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.