Arvind Panagariya Quotes

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

We seek to better integrate Brazil into the world... and eliminate unfair trade practices and uncertainty for foreign trade flows.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

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.

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

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

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

While protectionism doesn’t work, pure free trade doesn’t work either.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

I do not believe that we are under any obligation whatsoever to the Filipino people to open our markets..

For trade to grow, India must make a strategic decision that you want to encourage interdependence and more openness and more trade-based economy.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay tariffs sending them to Manchester, is quite hard to fathom in the modern world.

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

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

Our trade opens to all the world.

I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

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.