Barriers Quote by John Pugsley

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

— Stephen Moore

In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more destructive than…

— Hans F. Sennholz

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Scott Bessent

Tariffs protect ill-considered government policies, such as costly regulations and high taxes on labor and capital that make our goods uncompetitive in international markets.

— Paul Craig Roberts

Trade deals are not the vehicle for raising or lowering standards of protection for consumers, the environment, workers or anyone else. Regulations are made…

— Kenneth Clarke

For too long, the conventional wisdom has rejected the use of tariffs as a tool of both economic and foreign policy. However, like Alexander…

— Scott Bessent

I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform.

— William McKinley

The truth is that tariffs have a long and storied history as both a revenue-raising tool and a way of protecting strategically important industries…

— Scott Bessent

The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread…

— Milton Friedman

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

— Michael Porter

“The same man who tells you that he does not want to see the government interfere in business,” he said, “is the first to…

— Ganesh Sitaraman