Mack McLarty Quotes

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

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

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

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

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.

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

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

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

The experience of our unions and our members with past trade agreements has led us to question critically the extravagant claims often made on their behalf. While these agreements are inevitably touted as market-opening agreements that will significantly expand U.S. export opportunities and therefore create export-related U.S. jobs

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

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

Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada's environment.

A UK-Australia trade deal won't just be a good thing, it'll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.

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.

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.

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

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

Unfettered free trade has been a disaster not only for Americans but for the working people of Mexico and Canada as well.

We always saw TPP as something that we want to be part of. In the beginning, we were not part of TPP, neither Canada or Mexico. So when we finally joined the negotiations, to us it was an opportunity.

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

I know something about trade agreements. I was proud to help President Clinton pass the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 and create what is still the world's largest free-trade area, linking 426 million people and more than $12 trillion of goods and services.