Virgil Goode Quotes

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.

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.

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

I hope to be the go-to person on international trade and industry. I think no one before me or after me will ever have so much knowledge about America's ports.

Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.

The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.

Mexico believes in free trade.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not.

We know from drafts that the Donald Trump's administration has circulated on Capitol Hill, there are a few things they would like to change about NAFTA. They would like to, for example, have the ability to impose tariffs just because imports are surging from Canada or Mexico, not necessarily because they're being sold unfairly. They want more freedom to use our countervailing the subsidy laws against Canada and Mexico.

NAFTA is a horrible agreement, one of the worst trade deals ever. It's just one of the worst. Although TPP, which I terminated before it got signed - before it got finished, someday hopefully people will be thanking. That would have been one of the great disasters of all times, in terms of trade.

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

We think it is possible to get the benefits of a customs union but still have the flexibility for the U.K. to pursue an independent trade policy on top of that with other countries outside the E.U.