Tariff Quotes

As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster. Asa Hutchinson
Depression Great Key Recipe President Great Depression Signed Hoover Component Economic Recovery Outset Economic Recovery Disaster Learned Trade Tariff Vibrant After International International Trade Herbert Herbert Hoover
Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated. Elaine Chao
Work World Other Back Market Market Crash Destroyed Jobs Had Instead Fell Trade Were Been Effectively Up Stock Stock Market Tariff America Get American Just Nations After Crash Act Europe Exports World Trade Third Two-Thirds
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral. Ida Tarbell
Truth Man Dangerous Power Moral Must Rate More He Idea Make Accept Does Tariff Than Fixing Refuses Should Working Who Even Position
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed. Mark McKinnon
War History You Wins Consumers No-One Until Another Trade Always Got Proven Repeatedly Begets Tariff Get Screwed Then Ever
I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. William McKinley
Man Am Tariff Standing Platform
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. Alan Keyes
Government Before Experiment Our Claim Only Had Allowed Failed Were Imposed Years Years Ago Sales Tariff Just Tax Taxes Us Income Income Tax Socialist
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. Jonathan Dimbleby
Free Rich Every Aid Else Back Market Monumental Rip-Off Through Free Trade Global Global Market Accept Trade Dollar Dollars West Tariff Subsidies Africa Form Mean Poor Grotesque Barriers Two
A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation. Victor Fung
Hope Best World Broad Market Market Access Our Addressing Range System Trade Access Issues Very Tariff Barriers Multilateral Services World Trade
In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties. Henry Charles Carey
Protection Few System Abandoned Merely Revenue Years Provided Tariff Duties Established Which Should
We must be out of the protectionist common external tariff, which mainly protects inefficient E.U. industries at the cost to British consumers. Jacob Rees-Mogg
Out Must Cost Consumers Mainly Industries Protects Inefficient Tariff Common Which External British
Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required. John C. Calhoun
Will Country Duty Every Increase Increased Our Must Followed Shall Price New Equal Protective Till Caused Continue Imposed Condition Tariff Expansion Currency Duties Which Required Production Present Necessarily
On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of global supply chains and employment. Michael Spence
Change Will Own Negotiating Structure Tactics Investment Supply Global Employment Trade Tariff Patterns Transitory Viewed Barriers Chains
I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers. Piyush Goyal
Corruption Will Power Believe Adequate Cheap Simplify Supply Simultaneously Well Enable Reduce Tariff Process Poor Farmers Lesser
Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized. Piyush Goyal
Solar Wind Sector Price Developers Importance Bidding Method Discovery Tariff Efficiency Realise Realised Which Transparent Brings
Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product. Ron Wyden
Will Free Down See Percent Prices Free Trade Because Trade Korean Koreans Go South Tariff Getting Want Gonna Oregon Product Rid Who Agreement
In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing. Stephen Moore
Competition Every Sugar Lobby Case Strongly Almost Supported Supports Protective Industry Foreign Imports Shield Imposed Domestic Textile Tariff Getting Whenever Tax Clothing Quota Mills
Germany has a lot of solar power. In fact, in 2005, some 55 or 57 percent of worldwide installations were photovoltaics in Germany. That's 57 percent of all worldwide solar photovoltaics. Because of the high feed-in tariff, they have a way of allowing you to produce electricity and ship it into the grid at very high prices. Vinod Khosla
You Solar Power Worldwide Way High Some Percent Fact Prices Allowing Because Were Lot Ship Very Tariff Germany In Fact Grid Produce Electricity
The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them. W. Averell Harriman
Alone Better Made Think Other Relations Both Had Highly Most Period Industrialized Policies Trade Tariff Germany Nations Biggest Them Each Right Britain Two
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. Wilbur Ross
Benefit Rules Some Outside NAFTA Come Within Material Reductions Tariff Taxes Origin Need
A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness. Uday Kotak
Inflation Will Take Advantage National Else Once Once More Weaker More Take Advantage Tariff Get Currency After Inability Waste Raise Competitiveness

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