Us Trade Quotes

The last thing a Trump administration plans is a trade war. The issue simply is getting a decent trade deal with each of the major trading partners.

When I think of the things that Trump has done, ironically, everything is sort of - we care so much about Cuba and the Iran deal. I think pulling out of TPP is just devastating.

I agree with President Trump that our trade deals need to be renegotiated so they are more fair to American workers.

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

President Trump has done an extraordinary amount to promote our capitalist origins here at home while simultaneously, and this is how the government should work, protecting American workers from unbridled capitalism by redoing our trade agreements.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

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

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

[Donald Trump] is been very consistent on trade.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

[Donald Trump rhetoric]this is a common rhetorical line used by people who are against free trade that say, we're in favor of trade; we just don't like any of the free trade deals that America has actually signed onto.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

The United States should adopt a protective tariff of such a character as will help the struggling industries of Europe to get on their feet.

President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don't support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

It's extraordinary to me - you cannot name a presidential candidate in history who has singlehandedly, through bad trade deals, destroyed more American jobs and more American factories than Hillary Clinton. She did NAFTA, she did China's entry into the World Trade Organization, she did the South Korean 2012 deal - every single one of those.

Trump's trade and immigration policies will deliver an economic shock to states like Texas where trade produces a substantial share of the jobs, and which depend on high oil prices.

Donald Trump believed that the whole history of trade agreements, most of which I've supported over the years, have not been effective, and I've come to believe he's right.

From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.