Angela Merkel Quotes

On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

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.

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.

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

We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future

The European Union and the United States of America are the big important economic areas for us, which is why I always have come up strongly in favor of concluding a trade agreement with the United States of America.

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

China and India's relationship is gradually developing.

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.

While U.K. is one of India's most important trade and investment partners, India has become one of the largest investors in the U.K.

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

Commercial interests survive longer than strategic interests. When countries do business together, they stay together.

We are conscious of the need to maintain good relations with the United States. We have a border of more than 3,000 kilometers; more than 12 million Mexicans live in the United States. It is our main economic-commercial partner.

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.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

It will be crucial the E.U. and the U.K. maintain the closest economic relationship possible.

I feel there is huge potential for India and the U.K. to work together both on the technology space and on the investment space.

The economic partnership between India and Italy is strong.

I am a personal advocate of strong ties between India and Israel, so I am very happy to see that our relations are progressing so well in all fields of our engagement.