Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

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.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

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

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

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

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

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.

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

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

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

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.

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.

America has lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported strongly by Hillary Clinton. And by the way, the single worst trade deal ever made in history anywhere.

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.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.