Chris Martin Quotes

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

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.

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.

I will announce my intention to totally renegotiate NAFTA, one of the worst deals America has ever made.

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

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.

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

The developing countries are scared out of their wits now, because they don’t understand what they’re being forced to sign. The agreements are going way outside the trade issues and involve a helluva lot of things like your access to oil, your access to intellectual property and capital controls…. When I looked through the investment agreements, it was worse than reading my insurance policy for the fine print. I couldn’t make anything out of it, and I’m a reasonably informed person, a pretty smart economist as they go.

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?

We demand unrestricted trade between the merchants of both countries in all articles except gold and cereals, without any official interference.

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

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

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

A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

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

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.

I favored the idea of Trans-Pacific Partnership, but I did not support the administration - the [Barack] Obama administration TPP. There are three or four things they did in that, that I though were terrible agreements that were not worth supporting.

Free trade with Colombia is something that's a no-brainer.