Arancha Gonzalez Quotes

For Latin American countries seeking to play a bigger role in global trade, effectively implementing trade-facilitating reforms could be an important tool in their toolkits.

Africa needs access to markets.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

We seek to move from aid to trade.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

Mexico's government has made a strong commitment to boosting the country's competitiveness in global trade, and the Ministry of Economy recognizes that trade facilitation is a key element in achieving this objective.

In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

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.

For trade to grow, India must make a strategic decision that you want to encourage interdependence and more openness and more trade-based 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.

The deeper your regional integration, the more value chain activity you generate, but the more you close the gap between your small and your large companies.

What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

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

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

Business follows the flag …. Where there is stability and security, there is likely to be investment.

It is the duty of the Government to spare no opportunity of opening fresh outlets for the energy of British commerce and enterprise.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.