W. Averell Harriman Quotes

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe's global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.

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.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

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.