Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.

In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

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

The loss of manufacturing jobs is a sign of economic health.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

The data on worker displacement after NAFTA reads like a funeral program for the middle class.

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

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean that they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.

Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.

The economic situation, the high cost of undertaking manufacturing, the supply chain - which is, by the way, dying out also as manufacturing undergoes hardship - make the U.K. not the first place you would look at to make a manufacturing investment.

I know companies in Cleveland that could make the suits and the other things that Donald Trump has outsourced.

When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.

I'm tired of seeing American jobs, manufacturing, and headquarters forced overseas due to a tax code that works against us.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

Just about everything I own was made in China. Just about everything you own was made in China, too.

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.