Rob Portman Quotes

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.

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.

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

We're absolutely open to making NAFTA better.

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.

A UK-Australia trade deal won't just be a good thing, it'll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.

I was a big supporter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I worked very closely with President Obama on that.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

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.

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.

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.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

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

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

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

In its original version, the FTAA was meant to be a special carve-out for Washington and Wall Street as global 'free trade' advanced under the umbrella of the Doha round of the WTO.

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

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.

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

Since its enforcement, NAFTA has been more than a trade agreement. It has made us think of ourselves as a region.

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