Donald Trump Quotes

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

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

I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

What you do to China is you say if you don't behave we're going to have to start taxing your goods coming into our country.

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

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

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The arguments for protection are more easily made attractive than those for free trade.

Immediate restrictions must be introduced to drastically reduce imports. We waste millions of dollars on provocative imported commodities, like dog food, nuts, and ice cream.

We demand unrestricted trade between the merchants of both countries in all articles except gold and cereals, without any official interference.

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

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

China is the world's biggest exporter, but they're also the people with one of the highest tariffs on imports in the whole world. That seems a little bit oxymoronic.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

The USMCA is a good deal for American agriculture.

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.

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

Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one.

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.