Anand Mahindra Quotes

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

I would say to every nation on earth, by treaty, your people shall trade freely with us, and ours with you ...

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

If NAFTA goes away, it's not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.

E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.