Alan Tonelson Quotes (9 Quotes)

China is an economy growing at roughly 10 percent per year, they should be pulling in U.S. exports like crazy. That's not happening. I think you have to attribute it (a) to China's highly protectionist economic system and (b) to the American failure to open up Chinese markets.

The overwhelming majority of U.S. manufacturing industries have lost market share to foreign competition.

This indicates that there's not a lot of U.S. content in many of these Japanese-brand engines, and that many of them will be assembled in a new U.S. facility, and not genuinely manufactured. Assembly would of course generate much smaller benefits for the local and U.S. economies.

We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.

We emphatically reject the idea that the only way we can restore our competitiveness is to reduce our level of taxation to Third-World levels.

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

We think in one sense (China trade policy) has consisted of the indiscriminate opening of U.S. markets but has done little to open foreign markets to U.S. goods.

I see no prospect of a change that would significantly alter the landscape of U.S.-China trade relations.

We expect to convert congressmen and their staffs to our own view point in trade policy,