Trade Blocs Quotes

There is no one trade agreement in the world that has country-specific content. It doesn't exist. Content has to be measured regionally.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

These agreements should be free trade. They aren’t free trade.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

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

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.

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

WTO is the only multilateral system in which developed and developing countries sit together at par.

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.

Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.

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.

The E.U. is one of our largest trading partners, and any negotiations legally must be conducted at the E.U. level and not with individual nations.

Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.

Post globalisation, the debate has been, 'How much more are we going to liberalise?'

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

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 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.

To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.