Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

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

The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies.

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

NAFTA has dramatically improved our economy and that of our neighbors as well.

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

Trump has said he will dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement. This would be hugely harmful for Canada and the U.S. and for integration in the region.

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 Trans-Pacific Partnership has the potential to reshape America's relationship with the nations of the Pacific Rim, enhance U.S. leadership in this critically important region, and provide a major boost to our economy.

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

NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

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.

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

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 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.

The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

Obama and Kuczynski each promised to do all they could to enact the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The USMCA ushers in a new era for trade policy. Between labor protections and support for the American automobile industry, it places our manufacturers at the center of a blue collar comeback.