This is a total reversal of Henry Ford's landmark insight.

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.

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

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.

We just don't see how current U.S. strategy is going to reverse these very dangerous trends.

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 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.