Paul Cellucci Quotes

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

NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico.

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

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.

Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.

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

The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

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

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

The United States is already Mexico's largest trading partner.

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Yet there is disappointment in Washington and in the United States that Canada is not supporting us fully.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

I fully support global commerce.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

Don't make such a big deal out of this trade deficit…. In the United States you cannot find anybody to produce such labor-intensive products and it will be more expensive if you were to import such products from other countries and the regions than China. Only China is in the best position to produce such products, and this is also beneficial to China because this has provided job opportunities to China.

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

In international trade it’s always the 5 percent of that which works less well that gets most of the attention compared to the 95 percent that is functioning well.

Free trade is good for all countries but not necessarily good for all peoples in all countries.

The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.

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.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.