Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

I think TPP, as we knew it, is gone.

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

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

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

If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.

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?

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.

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.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

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

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

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.

Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can. We need to get on with it; we need to get a grip and make progress.

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

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.

Trade means jobs, but trade also means security. The time has come for all of us to urge the swift adoption of the Trans Pacific Partnership.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there's no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.