Narendra Modi Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Everyone is concerned about manufacturing in this country.

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

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.

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

We try to buy as much American-made shirts as we can and stuff to sell. It's very difficult to cover every base as much as our country has been saturated with foreign products.

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.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

The people see the layoffs. We must also show them the payoffs of trade.

If we took foreign trade out of Kansas City, we'd be in total depression in 48 hours.

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

Most American flags are made in China as you know.

Under a system of free trade every branch of industry did not prosper.

When you liberalize trade, benefits go to capital and away from labor.

U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.

We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.

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.

Most Republicans and the business community extol the virtues of trade, depicting it as an engine of economic progress, while most Democrats and unions attack the exportation of American jobs, claiming that trade agreements are destroying our economy.

I've seen the impact of poorly negotiated trade agreements on manufacturing in Maine.

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