Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

China is the most protectionist country of the very large countries. They talk more about free trade than they actually practice.

The E.U., China, and Japan all talk free trade, and they all practice protectionism.

If the United States wants access to Chinese, Indian or Vietnamese markets, we must get access to theirs. U.S. protectionism is very subtle but it is very much there.

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

We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.

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.

What you do is you say, fine, you want to go to Mexico or some other country, good luck. We wish you a lot of luck. But if you think you're going to make your air conditioners or your cars or your cookies or whatever you make and bring them into our country without a tax, you're wrong.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

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 problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.

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

I am utterly opposed to anything which will alter the Free Trade character of this country.

Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama all used temporarily targeted tariffs on specific industries.

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.

Hillary Clinton can't tell a good trade deal from bad one.

Consider trade protectionism. It's been tried - and found wanting - since the Great Depression.

I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.

Turkey has a customs union with the E.U. - it still means there are checks on the border between Turkey and the E.U.

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

Remember, it was Bill Clinton who signed NAFTA, one of the worst economic deals ever made by our country or, frankly, any other country. Never, ever again.

The United States can't keep a completely open system if the rest of the world is less open. The United States may have to take a leaf out of the book of Japan, China, and Germany, and have protectionism inside the system.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

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

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

Tariffs! There are the politics of the future. Study them closely and make yourselves masters of them.