By reducing trade barriers, improving…

In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back…

— Blythe Masters

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of…

— Seth Berkley

Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the Chinese government.…

— Nancy Pelosi

Many people who have lost out in the last few decades voted for Trump. Trump will have a difficult time turning them into winners.…

— Nicholas Bloom

On their own, tariff and trade barriers, if viewed as transitory negotiating tactics, will not significantly change global investment patterns or the structure of…

— Michael Spence

The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this…

— Daniel Altman

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

— Jim Ramstad

Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster...

— Daniel Altman

We wake up to find the whole world building competitive trade barriers, just as we found it a few years ago building competitive armaments.…

— Owen D. Young

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down…

— Rob Portman

According to the Institute for International Economics, trade barriers cost American consumers $80 billion a year or more than $1,200 per family.

— Walter E. Williams

Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.

— Frederic Bastiat

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of…

— Frank Chodorov

You know, it brings in a lot of different people; you take people off the street, and kids, and people from all different walks…

— Michele Lamy