Vladimir Putin Quotes

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

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.

Mexico believes in free trade.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

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 want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

The most difficult part of Brexit will be to figure out the trade regime between the U.K. and the rest of the E.U. because the level of trade integration between the members of the E.U. is the deepest in the world and integrates regulations that govern how products and services are produced and sold within the E.U.

Trade deal negotiations are highly complicated and take a long time.

The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.

What are these better deals the U.K. really wants from Europe and other countries? Some more clarity would be helpful.

Twenty-seven member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry, let alone what they are going to do on free trade deals with the rest of the world.

When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights and leveling the playing field for international trade are serious matters that must be resolved. But that will happen through honest negotiation.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

It's really important for all of us to understand that healthy trade relationships between the U.S. and China are important.

On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China's actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe's global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.

I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.'s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

Trade negotiations require compromise.