Rick Mercer Quotes

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

The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is a continuation of other disastrous trade agreements, like NAFTA, CAFTA, and permanent normal trade relations with China.

There's a whole range of areas that we'll be looking at, so I'm not at this very early stage going to specify any particular areas. As you will know, there will be a limit to how far we can go in terms of a formal free trade agreement until we've actually left the European Union. I think there is much that we [with Donald Trump] can do in the interim in terms of looking at how we can remove some of the barriers to trade in a number of areas.

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.

Going on and getting good bilateral agreement is a better way [than Trans-Pacific Partnership agreements], and I'm fine with that strategy. I think that strategy can work as well.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

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.

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.

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

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

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

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 believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.

China is our largest trading partner in Asia. The normalization of our relations will create major opportunities for Norwegian businesses and for job creation. We also hope to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement with China.

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

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

A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

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.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up to the terms of NAFTA. We ask you, our best friend and most important trading partner to do the same thing.

America has to make a new trade deal with Mexico because we're getting clobbered.

The Barack Obama administration had been negotiating with the Canadians to come up with a permanent solution on lumber tariff. And they failed. And so even though this is being portrayed as the first salvo by Donald Trump's tough trade regime, in fact, it's quite possible that, if Hillary Clinton were president, we would be in the same place.