Tariffs Quotes

“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!”
― James Clavell, Tai-Pan

“it is easier to induce national governments to discriminate against foreign producers than to defend the interests of domestic consumers”
― George W. Stocking

“nationalist governments tend to have trade difficulties.”
― Malka Ann Older, Infomocracy

“Few people in the USA seem to realize that President Trumps ‘Made In America’ through international tariffs is likely to make almost everything more expensive and it will hit the poor, sick and elderly the hardest.”
― Steven Magee

“President Trump is taxing the USA masses with import tariffs.”
― Steven Magee

“When Nigerians who don’t enjoy electricity are asked to pay higher tariff for it, what do you think? It’s like paying the pride price of a dead maiden. And if the reason for the high tariff is, like they claim, to attract investors, see it as senseless as the idea of paying the pride price of a yet-to-be-born bride.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Page 199: According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Statistics, more than 20 percent of all imports to the United States come from foreign subsidiaries or affiliates of U.S. multinational corporations. … This is why American business is so adamantly opposed to tariffs—not fear of foreign retaliation, but fear of tariffs on products from American-owned industrial plantations.”
― Michael Lind, The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution

“The law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.”
― Bastiat Frédéric, The Law

“Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't compete”
― Bob Woodward, Rage