Trading Partners Quotes

• We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

  Mike Johanns

  Believe, Decision, Leader

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Our shared histories and common values make us natural trading partners and we will continue to work with both the United Kingdom and the European Union as we move forward with this new decision.

  Justin Trudeau

  Moving, Decision, Unions

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

  Angela Merkel

  Years, America, Important

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

  S. R. Nathan

  Children, School, Leader

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• The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace.

  Daniel Altman

  Country, Years, Ideas

  "Why the WTO Is Obsolete". Interview with Daniel Altman, bigthink.com.

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• On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Years, Ties, Community

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• I am deeply skeptical of trade deals in general.But the only way they can get a number of Democrats is by doing a strong real currency bill that goes after the worst of the trading partners, the one that`s stealing our high-end jobs.

  Charles Schumer

  Strong, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Wall, Enemy, Mexico

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• We value our relations with Europe, which we have jointly developed over the past decades, and Europe remains our main trading partner. It is my hope that we will normalise these relations in the near future

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Past, Europe, Partners

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• It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

  Tony Abbott

  Japan, Korea, Long

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Leadership, Money, War

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• The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Mean, Past, Doctrine

  "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

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• I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

  Chris Chocola

  Strong, Long, United States

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• Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Korea, Partners

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wise, Country, Russia

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Specifically in reference to Iran, Donald Trump will not be able to renegotiate the nuclear arms pact. His attempt to do so will alienate all the European powers involved and will cost a number of US companies some very lucrative contracts. It is a losing proposition for him and for the US. Much more so than for Iran, who will turn more and more to Russia and China as trading partners.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Russia, Iran, Numbers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Middle East would always be an important trading partner in just a market sense, like America is a big market for us, Asia is a big market, Europe is a big market. You are going to have hundreds of millions of consumers there, from just a standard market point of view, from a very narrow American point of view.

  Thomas Friedman

  Views, Europe, America

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• At the moment we are hard-wired into the European markets - 50% of our exports go to Europe - and that has not been good for the UK. So I'm not saying "make Britain entirely dependent on China". I'm saying "let's diversify a bit". When I became chancellor, China was our ninth largest trading partner. This is the world's second biggest economy. China was doing more business with Belgium than it was with Britain.

  George Osborne

  Europe, World, Moments

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.

  George Osborne

  Thinking, Europe, Chinese

  Source: www.economist.com

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• A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

  Mike Huckabee

  Productive Life, People, Allies

  "Why foreign aid still makes sense" by Mike Huckabee and Blanche Lincoln, www.politico.com. October 22, 2012.

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• The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

  Brian Mulroney

  Japan, West Germany, United States

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• For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Korea, Numbers, Perspective

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• A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  War, Keys, World

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• And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

  John W. Snow

  Growth, Steps, Partners

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

  Andrew Simms

  Country, Ice Cream, Economic Value

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