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The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets. -- Alan Greenspan
It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. -- Philip Hammond
The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles. -- Vladimir Putin
That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly. -- Marcy Kaptur
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms. -- Ban Ki-moon
Pretty soon, we should see a few large regional blocs dominating global trade. The ones that lower trade barriers faster will grow faster. -- Daniel Altman
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding. -- Abdul Kalam
The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment. -- Ralph Nader
I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being. -- Narendra Modi
I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. -- Ernest Istook
Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests. -- Charles C. Mann
I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both be within our trading relationships within Europe but we can also be a fantastic global trader. -- Iain Duncan Smith
To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century, -- Pascal Lamy
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies. -- Sulak Sivaraksa
It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals. -- David Suzuki
I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. -- Mark Zandi
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. -- Paul Singer
If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth. -- James J. Hill
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development. -- Anna Lindh
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy. -- Stephen Harper
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. -- Stephen F. Lynch
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition. -- David Blunkett
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. -- Deepak Chopra
Terrorism and trade cannot be the only issues on which the world unites. We must commit ourselves to a global coalition to deal with exclusion, too. -- Noreena Hertz
To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreements a priority as they were under the Clinton administration. -- Mark McKinnon
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. -- Dan Kildee
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression. -- Thomas Woods
I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy. -- Nancy Pelosi
I think the global markets will probably be selling off with a [Donald] Trump presidency because he has promised to re-do trade deals. -- Maria Bartiromo
I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food. -- David Suzuki

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