Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

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

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

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

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.

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

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.

Internal protectionism in Europe would be deadly, really a disaster for European economies.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

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.

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

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries.

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

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

I believe the Japanese set ceilings on what they will buy from foreign companies.

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

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

When the new states of Europe were created by the Treaty of Versailles their new governments, lacking revenue and not daring to impose direct taxes on their people, resorted to the dangerous expedient of imposing high taxes at the border on merchandise seeking to enter their markets from abroad. An immediate slowing down of commerce resulted.

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

If Texas and Kansas were countries they wouldn't be admitted to the World Trade Organization. Their policies are congruent with North Korea, Somalia, Turkestan, several other countries I can't pronounce and Micronesia.

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.