Thabo Mbeki Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• If you look at the Company Register, maybe that's what we should say to that business consultant or analyst. If you look at the Company Register with the Department of Trade and Industry, one of the remarkable things that you will see over the last few years is, in fact, the growth of small and medium business, many of whom depend on these services to succeed.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Growth, Lasts

  Source: www.gov.za

• We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with Mercosur, South America. So there are a number of these trade agreements in the major markets of the world.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Numbers, America, Agreement

  Source: www.gov.za

• While the WTO negotiations will continue, there are other trade negotiations of a bilateral nature, which among other things, should help to open up these markets for South African products.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Helping, Negotiation, Should

  Source: www.gov.za

• We have a series of regular meetings with South African business. Big business. Black business. Agriculture. As well, of course, with the trade unions. A whole series of meetings like that which engage issues that these South African social partners need to address.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Agriculture, Issues, Black

  Source: www.gov.za

• When I was in government, the South African economy was growing at 4.5% - 5%. But then came the global financial crisis of 2008/2009, and so the global economy shrunk. That hit South Africa very hard, because then the export markets shrunk, and that includes China, which has become one of the main trade partners with South Africa. Also, the slowdown in the Chinese economy affected South Africa. The result was that during that whole period, South Africa lost something like a million jobs because of external factors.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Jobs, Government, Chinese

  Source: www.tregernomics.com

• There are established processes of consultation between the Government, the parastatals and the trade unions, which have worked in the past. And I don't see any particular reason why they shouldn't work.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Past, Government, Unions

  Source: www.gov.za

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