Jean Baptiste Champagny Quotes

I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

The day of our arrival at Canton, August 30th, and the two following days, we were visited by the Chinese merchants … and treated by them in all respects as citizens of a free and independent nation. As such, during our stay, we were universally considered. The Chinese themselves were very indulgent towards us, though, ours being the first American ship that had ever visited China, it was some time before they could fully comprehend the distinction between us and Englishmen. They styled us the New People; and when by the map we conveyed to them an idea of the extent of our country, with its present and increasing population, they were highly pleased at the prospect of so considerable a market for the productions of their own empire.

You must remember that the Union saved Scotland. Scotland was bankrupt and the English opened us up to their American and Canadian markets, from which we just flowered

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.

Texas has an established trade office in Mexico City, as do other Texan cities. They have a more mature trade relationship with Mexico, and I want to make Arizona a leader in this area also.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

Countries trade with one another for the same reasons that individuals, businesses, and regions do: to exploit their comparative advantages.

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

No interest can divide two peoples connected only over vast tracts of sea; the relations of commerce will form a chain which, if not eternal, will be of long duration.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

Practical and obvious interests of all the capitalistic powers have demanded the development, consolidation and expansion of trade with Russia.

China has become the export destination of preference for most of the world.

In all free trade agreements there are winners and losers.

Afghanistan is moving to really becoming an export-oriented country.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

From a high-tech point of view, an agriculture point of view, a goods-and-services point of view, a great deal of [committee Democrats] have no choice except to support allowing America access to these markets.

What I keep telling people is, getting trade agreements that are good for America is good for everybody.

The Canadian economy relies on foreign trade. Nearly three-quarters of Canada's exports go south.