Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

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

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

The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.

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.

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.

If what is on the table is something that is not good for Mexico, Mexico will step away from NAFTA.

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

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

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

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.

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.

I would say to every nation on earth, by treaty, your people shall trade freely with us, and ours with you ...

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?

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

Since its enforcement, NAFTA has been more than a trade agreement. It has made us think of ourselves as a region.

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.

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

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 think Canadians, by and large, during the American election, every time Donald Trump talked about NAFTA, we felt that he was talking about Mexico. Now, if Donald Trump tears up NAFTA, there is still a Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. And we all assume that we will revert back to that agreement, which is essentially the same as NAFTA except Mexico is no longer at the table. I think, you know, that is what we are hoping for.

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

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

You cannot close down free trade. What you've got to do is open up markets.