Li Keqiang Quotes

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

International trade is not a zero-sum game.

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

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

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

In 1988, federal data showed a modest China-trade surplus of $1.6 billion in Canada's favour.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.

The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.

It will be found, that as some particular Men in a Town grow richer, and thrive better than others; so also do Nations, who by Trade serving the occasions of their Neighbors, supply themselves with what they have occasion for from abroad; which done, the rest is laid up, and is Silver, Gold, etc. for as I said, these being commutable for everything, and of small bulk, are still preferr'd to be laid up, till occasion shall call them out to supply other Necessaries wanted.

China has become the export destination of preference for most of the world.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.