Gerald Doucet Quotes

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

The WTO [World Trade Organization] has been treated for too long like some private priesthood for experts …

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.

President Obama was right to make enforcement of those trade rules a priority and his creation, today, of a Trade Enforcement Unit is a massive step in the right direction.

You can’t have free trade of others don’t play by the same set of rules that our guys play by…. Free trade works if we open our markets and they open theirs.

Governments agree to accept the rulings of the World Trade Organization because, on balance, they benefit from a rules-based international trading order, even in a particular ruling impinges on their right to protect national industries.

Demanding reciprocity from our trade partners, and retaliating if we don't get it, doesn't undermine free trade, it defends free trade.

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

It's not just free trade verses protectionism any longer, you've got the concepts of managed trade and reciprocity, and environmental issues.

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

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.

After so many historical illustrations of the evil effects of abandoning the policy of protection for that of a revenue tariff, we are again confronted by the suggestion that the principle of protection shall be eliminated from our tariff legislation. Have we not had enough of such experiments?

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

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.

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.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

Any bilateral trade and investment agreement must be comprehensive and address the full range of barriers to U.S. goods and services if it is to receive broad, bipartisan congressional support.

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

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

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

It's very personal to me that we get these trade deals right.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.