Tariffs Quotes

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

— P. Chidambaram

I would recommend that tariffs be layered in gradually.

— Scott Bessent

“Let's compete freely. Goddam tariffs! Free trade and free seas—that's what's right!”

— James Clavell

Politics is involved when you don't tackle inefficiency and burden people with higher tariffs.

— Piyush Goyal

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.

— Cal Cunningham

The problem with tariffs is they shift higher costs onto the backs of non-protected industries and consumers.

— Stephen Moore

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

— Thorstein Veblen

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

— John Layfield

My belief is that the U.S. is looking at the world through a short-term lens of tariffs and elections, while China is…

— John Layfield

A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan;…

— Donald E. Graham

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one…

— Mark McKinnon

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They…

— Donald Trump

There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and…

— James K. Polk

The idea that you could send agricultural products to Tokyo and Osaka and not pay tariffs, and you would have to pay…

— Leo Varadkar

Manufacturing value chains are global. Many U.S.-made goods have foreign components. Slapping on tariffs will raise prices and slow imports, but it…

— David Autor

Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that…

— Greg Ip

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps…

— Milton Friedman

This is where I would lodge my deepest criticisms. We have very whimsically been threatening and then backing off of tariffs. The…

— Cal Cunningham

Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity.…

— Walter Block

From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in…

— Laurance Labadie

In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry…

— Stephen Moore

Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists…

— Louise Wilson

Tariffs, government contracts, naval and military spending, nationalized industries, tax policy, social welfare, the legal privileging of labor unions were among the…

— Ralph Raico

The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital.…

— Ezra Heywood

As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or…

— Frederic Bastiat

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…

— Sam Houston

This conclusion of trade agreements that go beyond the scope of mere tariff agreements, customs agreements, are most important and I'm very…

— Angela Merkel

We had a level of tariffs of about five per cent. Now a lot of those will go, most of them will…

— Andrew Robb

What [Donald] has put up for question is this idea of tariffs. Initially, he said if China won't stop taking advantage of…

— Maria Bartiromo

For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of…

— Milton Friedman

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it:…

— Frederic Bastiat

Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.

— Joe Kaeser

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

— Mark Frost

Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are a tax on Arizona families and businesses.

— Ruben Gallego

Opening the Pandora's box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

— Abraham Lincoln

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

I think that tariffs in a way can be regarded as an economic sanction without a sanction.

— Scott Bessent

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer…

— Albert J. Nock