Emmanuel Macron Quotes

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

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

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

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

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

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.

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.

As the Bank of England has noted, Brexit is a unique experiment in the reimposition of protectionist barriers to trade.

Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.

I worry about protectionists, which is another way of saying less competition, less trade around the world. And I view those as twins of negativity.

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

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.

A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

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.

Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

Unfair foreign trade practices are not isolated acts.

No one wants to return to the old protectionism, but we need to protect our own…. We are committed to the unrestricted defense of national interests.