Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Quotes

Our key objective is to remove obstacles to trade.

Free trade agreements are never for one sector alone.

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.

Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.

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.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

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

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

The British Empire (with the exception of a very short period in the 1930s) was a free trade empire, unlike all the other great empires of the world …. Anyone could trade with the British Empire.

We could not get NAFTA passed today with the current Congress…. We’ve got to combine trade liberalization with a broad-based sharing of the fruits of our productivity.

We are willing to open markets and cut our subsidies if others will, but we won’t do it alone.

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

The prosperity created at home and overseas by free expansion [of foreign trade] was infinitely greater than could be coaxed by restrictive mercantilism.

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 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.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

I've supported the process of getting to a good Trans-Pacific Partnership deal.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.

We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade.