Justin Trudeau Quotes

I fully support global commerce.

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.

Mexico believes in free trade.

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.

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.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

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

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

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.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.

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

NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.

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

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

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

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.