Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

We can do a much better job free of protectionist Europeans.

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.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

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

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

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

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

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 is no precedent of an advanced economy withdrawing from a trade agreement as deep and as complex as the European Union.

Protectionism in all its forms should be rejected, and efforts should be made to discipline measures that constitute barriers to trade.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

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.

By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe's global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.

A country the size of Brazil can't be held back by Mercosur to do trade with the rest of the world.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.