Roberto Azevedo

One thinks that one is winning when we slap tariffs or introduce barriers to imports from another country, and we think we win. But you lose when you export because the other countries are going to raise tariffs as well. They're going to introduce barriers as well. So you win with one hand and you lose with the other.

Brazilian Diplomat

John C. Calhoun

Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country, by an expansion of the currency, which must continue to increase till the increased price of production, caused by the expansion, shall be equal to the duty imposed, when a new tariff will be required.

American Statesman

Stephen Moore

In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing.

American Writer

Ida Tarbell

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

American Journalist

Piyush Goyal

Wind developers have realised the importance of transparent method of price discovery, which was demonstrated in the solar sector. They realise that bidding brings in efficiency, and tariff is right-sized.

Indian Politician

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Indian Businessman

Thomas Sowell

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

American Economist

Bill Browder

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn't be so high.

American Activist

Matt Gaetz

Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.

American Politician

P. Chidambaram

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

Refers to specific costs for services offered, not general product pricing.

Service Costs

Often implies a non-negotiable set price list for services at a business.

Fixed Prices

Tariffs are usually published to provide clear cost information to consumers.

Transparency

Tariffs are used by governments as a tool to control trade policies and protect domestic industries.

Trade Policy

Tariffs on imports can increase the cost of foreign goods for consumers.

Cost Impact

Countries may respond to tariffs by imposing their own, leading to a 'trade war'.

Retaliation Risk

To tariff goods is to consciously decide to protect local businesses against foreign competitors.

Protect Local

Using tariffs can be a strategic move in international negotiations.

Economic Leverage

Tariff rates can change with new government policies, impacting international trade.

Policy Change

 and loudly opposed it, were there not?" "My client was under a great deal of pressure. I say, do you think it's easy governing such a huge country and keeping the Union together, when states are fixing to nullify federal laws? President Jackson barely got South Carolina to back down over those import tariffs,

History vs. Andrew...

 We know that we have to move from our fossil dependence very quickly into a low-carbon economy in record time. And what shall we do? Everybody talks about carbon taxes -- it won't work -- emission schemes, but for example, one policy measure, feed-in tariffs on the energy system, which is already applied,

Let the environment...

 because we have tariff barriers to protect our corn farmers, and they don't. Or we could use the saved gas directly to cover all of this balance, or if we used it as hydrogen, which is more profitable and efficient, we'd get rid of the domestic oil too. And that doesn't even count, for example,

Amory Lovins: We must...

 most of the world the sweetener is sugar but in the United States it's high fructose corn syrup coke says they use the sweetener because it's more readily available in the US market u.s. corn subsidies in tariffs on imported sugar have also made high fructose corn syrup cheaper than sugar

Secret Formula of...

 Forty-five percent tariff. Do you know that, even to look for fine cardboard to ship my finished products to the US, I can't find new, finished cardboard? Impossible. Because the distributors are not going to come here to start their business, because it makes no sense, either.

Why it's too hard to...

 countries would benefit people in developing countries right now we encourage the developing world to embrace free trade to abandon protectionist barriers while the countries in Europe and the United States continue to keep up our own tariffs to protect our farmers Bill

What is international...

 These encounters were often less than peaceful. But even through raids and warfare, as well as trade and protection of traveling merchants in exchange for tariffs, the nomads began to spread goods, ideas and technologies between cultures with no direct contact.

The Silk Road:...

 For poorer countries, China reduces tariffs so that Laos and Cambodia can sell their goods more cheaply and become dependent on exporting to China as well. And now many of you have been reading in the news how people are looking to China

Parag Khanna maps the...

 this a search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die this is the world that we live in during the Mumbai siege tariffs were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the

A vision of crimes in...

 don't produce drugs. Second, textile. Trade is the key, not aid. The U.S. and Europe should give us a zero percent tariff.