Non-Tariff Barriers Quotes

Obstacles to trade put up the cost both to consumers and businesses.

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

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

Being outside the customs union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

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.

We must have a national tariff policy.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

The EU has made it very clear that for frictionless trade and no tariffs on goods there is a mechanism for achieving that, but there are consequences. There are trade-offs that will have to happen.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

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

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

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

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.

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

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA.

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

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.

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

Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules.

A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

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

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

By remaining inside a customs union and the single market in a transitional phase we would be certain that goods and services could continue to flow between the E.U. and the U.K. without tariffs, customs checks or additional red tape.