Free Trade Quotes - Page 2

• We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  America, Action, Construction

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• Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Doe, Trade, Bigotry

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• Free Tibet before free trade.

  Zhu Rongji

  Trade, Tibet

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• Germany is very free-trade oriented.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Germany, Trade

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• The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Lasts, Firsts, Movement

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• As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Technology, Hair, Korea

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism”, Bloomsbury Press

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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Needs, Libertarian

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• I support free trade. Donald Trump supports free trade.Trade means jobs. Jobs in the United States, jobs in my home state of Indiana are supported by international exports.

  Mike Pence

  Home, Mean, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, Economic Integration, World

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up to the terms of NAFTA. We ask you, our best friend and most important trading partner to do the same thing.

  Anne McLellan

  Country, Agreement, Important

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• I do think creating an open free-trade economy but with strong social support is the way to go.

  David Brooks

  Strong, Thinking, Creating

  "Week In Politics: Trump Begins 'Thank You' Tour In Indiana", apr.org. December 2, 2016.

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• We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field.

  Paul Ryan

  Levels, Want, Fields

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Agreement

  "Breaking the Sound Barrier: Third-Party Candidates Ralph Nader & Cynthia McKinney Respond to Final McCain-Obama Debate". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 16, 2008.

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• How will the exit affect thousands of British pensioners living in Portugal or Spain who will lose their access to the welfare and health systems? Fifty-three free-trade agreements, which were negotiated by the EU on behalf of all Member States, are also hanging in the balance for the UK.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Agreement, Balance, Fifty

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

  Daniel Hannan

  Trade Zone, People, Tunes

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• They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Different, Wavelength

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

  Robert Kuttner

  Thrive, Trade, Technological

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.97, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• 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.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, Support, United States

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Eye, Evil, Firsts

  Frederic Bastiat (2014). “Sophisms of the Protectionists”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mean, Doe, Trade

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• I love free trade. I love the concept of free trade. Everything about it is good. I went to the Wharton School of Finance. They say, Let's go free trade.

  Donald Trump

  School, Finance, Trade

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm a big free trader. But it has to be fair.

  Donald Trump

  Traders, Bigs, Fairs

  "Trump on dismantling Obama's legacy: 'No, no, no'" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 12, 2016.

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• The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into Mexico and drives out Mexican farmers. Maybe they have to go into the cities, and they don't have jobs to support them, so they flee across the border.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Cities, Mexican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

  Kent Conrad

  Agreement, Recipes, Sugar

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