Victor Fung Quotes

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

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

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

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

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.

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

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.

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

Tariffs are only one tool in enforcing our global trade policy.

We think it is possible to get the benefits of a customs union but still have the flexibility for the U.K. to pursue an independent trade policy on top of that with other countries outside the E.U.

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

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

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.

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

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

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

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.

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

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

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

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

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.

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