Quotes About Trade

We are willing to consider any rebalancing as long as it's through trade expansion, not through trade restriction. As long as it's about how can we buy more from each other, we're willing to work that way.

I do not believe the United States and the Americans are going to let Donald Trump become president... I think the challenge is Donald Trump, with his anti-China rhetoric and with his anti-trade rhetoric, is going to make the job for all of us more difficult going forward.

I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

A company not under sanction is just like any other company, period.

The sea is my business.

The only way to keep the British economy secure is to leave the E.U.

People didn't know where they could trade. When everybody owes each other IOUs that can be in multiple places at once, that's how the system couldn't tell any more who owned what and who owed what to whom. Blockchain could have prevented 2008.

The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies.

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

You get something, but for that you make a pact with the devil.

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for three years.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that's half of our market gone.

India and Pakistan should fight only in the field of economy.

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

If Canadian companies want to sell products to the E.U., they have to prove those products conform with E.U. product safety, health and environmental rules. This involves extra bureaucracy, controls and paperwork. If the U.K. had a Canada-style deal with the E.U., U.K. companies would have to do the same.

Labour believes that every trade deal should come before parliament for a full debate on the floor of the House of Commons, with a vote at the end of that debate.

The whole idea of a trade deal is to build a fence around participants inside and give them an advantage over the outside. So there's a conceptual flaw in that, one of many conceptual flaws in NAFTA.

I think international business experience is an asset in a congressional candidate, particularly in a district with so much international commerce.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.

I don't want any country buying up Brazil, but we will do business with all countries, and China is an exceptional partner.

Where opportunities to expand trade and commerce exist, we will lead, and we will partner.

For Obama, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement - unilaterally abrogated by Trump - was part of the 'pivot to Asia,' a re-assertion of the role of America in that part of the world.