Pete Gallego Quotes

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

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

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Countries trade with one another for the same reasons that individuals, businesses, and regions do: to exploit their comparative advantages.

Do all that … the increase of trade should require.

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

We demand unrestricted trade between the merchants of both countries in all articles except gold and cereals, without any official interference.

In international trade it’s always the 5 percent of that which works less well that gets most of the attention compared to the 95 percent that is functioning well.

If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.

Considering how advantageous it would be to this realm to reestablish its foreign and domestic commerce, ... we have resolved to establish a council particularly devoted to commerce, to be held every fortnight in our presence, in which all the interests of merchants and the means conducive to the revival of commerce shall be considered and determined upon, as well as all that which concerns manufactures.

International borders are as uninteresting to large business as the equator.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.

Every transaction in commerce is an independent transaction.

There is no person in the least acquainted with political economy, but must be aware that the advantages resulting from the division of labour, as applicable to nations as well as individuals, depend solely and entirely on the power of exchanging subsequently the products of labour. And no one can hesitate to allow, that it is completely in the power of others to prevent such exchanges, and to destroy entirely the advantages which would otherwise result from the application of individual or national industry, to peculiar and appropriate products.

Our object is wholly new in the world. It is singular: it is grown up to this magnitude and importance within the memory of man; nothing in history is parallel to it… In this new system, a principle of commerce, of artificial commerce, must prevail.

Each Country have their peculiar most suitable Productions; and likewise that different Men have Genius's adapted to Variety of different Arts and Manufactures, Therefore Commerce, or the Exchange of one Commodity or Manufacture for another, is highly convenient and beneficial to Mankind

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.

We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.