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Sugar protectionism is government planning, It is industrial policy—government picking winners and losers—applied to agriculture.

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

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

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

A trade war is a conflict in which each side uses most of its ammunition to shoot itself in the foot.

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

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.

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

The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

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

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.

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

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

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

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.

Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.

I believe the Japanese set ceilings on what they will buy from foreign companies.

We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.