Decision makers Quote by Yahya Sayed Omar

It is not good to cut exports or imports.

— Jose Angel Gurria

We have to learn to live with fewer imports and more exports, promoting national production.

— Miguel Diaz-Canel

We survey companies and ask them what the barriers to export and import are. Once we map these barriers, we sit down with the…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

— Arancha Gonzalez

We are the world's biggest importer. We need to treat the other countries as good suppliers.

— Wilbur Ross

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

— Petro Poroshenko

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.

— George W. Bush

“Our gain from foreign trade is what we import. Exports are the price we pay to get imports. As Adam Smith saw so clearly,…

— Milton Friedman

“...the road, rail, and port systems are so bad that poor countries cannot develop the scale of operations necessary to achieve high productivity.”

— William W. Lewis

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal…

— Kenneth Clarke

Our goal as a nation must be to rely less on imports and more on products made here in the USA.

— Donald Trump

Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact…

— Ann Veneman