Export Subsidies Quotes

In 200 years when the United States will get all that it can from protectionism, it too will adopt free trade.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

All the U.S. is asking for is free, fair trade.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

We must have a national tariff policy.

Every organized human society has sought to manipulate trade to its advantage.

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

The countries we are defending are stealing our markets.

In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition.

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

A decided handicap which the United States faces in its competition for foreign markets is that the wheat which it exports is for the most part mediocre in quality.

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments. We are trying to reduce armaments to preserve the world's solvency. We shall have to reduce competitive trade barriers to preserve the world's sanity. As between the two, trade barriers are more destructive than armaments and more threatening to the peace of the world.

Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports.

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

The British government should use every kind of cheating that other governments use to promote their products.

I see something different in Hillary Clinton. She wants a trade prosecutor. She's going after currency. She's going stand up strong on keeping China designated as a non-market economy.

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

Donald Trump talks a good game on trade, but he's never lived it. He's lined his pockets by outsourcing jobs to low-wage countries, and now he's talking about trade as if he actually means it?

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico.

Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

If the U.S. doesn't have an export credit agency, which is what the Export-Import Bank is, then we can't compete with other countries that do. Every other country in the world that competes in aerospace has an export credit agency.

Free export of tobacco to foreign markets.

If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it's in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.