Mark McKinnon Quotes

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

Getting trade policy right is huge for our economy and huge for Maryland. This is about creating Maryland jobs by selling Maryland products to Asia, moving right from Western Maryland farms out through the Port of Baltimore.

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

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

America has a right to demand that the world’s markets are open to our products …

Free trade is the result of prosperity rather than the cause of prosperity .... Without growth over a long period of time you will not have a political commitment to free trade.

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.

President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.

Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In the long run, trade works for America.

Globalization has very materially improved the standard of living in the Unitied States... as it has for those countries that have chosen to operate with free trade…. Although none of us likes our competitors, competition has greatly improved our standard of living.

There is nothing inconsistent between standing up for free trade and standing up for American workers.

Free trade economists have to explain how free trade can be an explanation for the economic success of today’s rich countries, when it simply had not been practiced very much before they became rich.

We have quit discussing the tariff, and have turned our attention to getting trade wherever it can be found.

Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.