Wilbur Ross Quotes

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

If you trade with someone and they are your biggest trading partner, it is impossible you don't have trade issues.

I think that trade is an important issue. Of course, we are 5 percent of the world's population; we have to trade with the other 95 percent. And we need to have smart, fair trade deals.

I am not anti-trade. I am pro-trade. But I am pro-sensible trade.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

We think it is possible to get the benefits of a customs union but still have the flexibility for the U.K. to pursue an independent trade policy on top of that with other countries outside the E.U.

I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.'s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.

I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean really fast - we are going to tax your products 25%.

The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.

America has hundreds of billions of dollars of losses on a yearly basis - hundreds of billions with China on trade and trade imbalance, with Japan, with Mexico, with just about everybody. We don't make good deals anymore.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.