John Shimkus Quotes

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

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.

Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

There is a perfectly good alternative to the European Union - it is called the European Free Trade Association, founded in 1960. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are members. E.F.T.A. stands for friendship and cooperation through free trade.

A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.

Obviously, what we had under the original NAFTA was very good. Canada prospered greatly from it.

There is no question that the benefits of a permanent, robust trading partnership between the U.S. and the E.U. are a rare example of a win-win for both parties.

I'm an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.

From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.

Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.

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.

For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.

Pakistan is the first South Asian country to sign a free trade agreement and currency swap agreement with China.

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

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.

As commerce secretary, I led the Clinton administration's effort to ensure China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the permanent normalization of trade between the U.S. and China - steps that produced a 76 percent increase in U.S. exports to China in just three years.

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

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

The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.