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" The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past. "
Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
NAFTA
Past
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" Every challenge has the opportunity to convert into a winning proposition. "
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" If you throw obstacles at the relationship with Mexico, you would be shooting yourself in the foot. "
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" Since its enforcement, NAFTA has been more than a trade agreement. It has made us think of ourselves as a region. "
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" I can't come back home with an agreement that will not be a win-win-win situation for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. "
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" You cannot set salaries by decree. At the end of the day, it doesn't work with the market. What you can make sure to do is to train workers in order to make them more efficient and demand higher salaries because of their qualifications. "
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" You cannot have an agreement... that gives a tailor's cut, a perfect handiwork, to a specific company. "
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" Mexico is very well positioned in the IT sector, thanks to our closeness to North America and how things are being developed in Silicon Valley. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm sure the apple guys from Washington state or the corn guy from Iowa will not like tariffs on corn or apples. "
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" The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not. "
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" The actions taken by the Cuban government with its new trade zone open up the potential of strategic investments from Mexico. Mexican companies are very excited. "
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Mexico
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" We can be a very natural partner as a support base for Ireland to use Mexico to enter into the North American and South American markets and for Mexico, in turn, to really take advantage of Ireland as a gateway to the European markets. "
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" The list of traceability for some automotive components needs to be rethought for new technologies to send adequate signals about the strengthening of the value chains in North America. "
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" At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world. "
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" If we have to talk to the devil to guarantee the safety and future of the Mexican people in the U.S., Mexico will talk to the devil. "
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" There won't be a law with sanctions, but Mexicans and Mexican consumers will know how to value those companies that are loyal to our national identity and those that are not. "
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" Toyota has 10 plants in the United States... and employs more than 130,000 Americans. If I were Mr. Trump, I'd treat them with more respect. "
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" There is no one trade agreement in the world that has country-specific content. It doesn't exist. Content has to be measured regionally. "
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" Opening the Pandora's box of tariffs will be an endless game, and it will be a lose-lose proposition. "
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" We believe more in bridges and making the border better. "
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" Mexico's government has made a strong commitment to boosting the country's competitiveness in global trade, and the Ministry of Economy recognizes that trade facilitation is a key element in achieving this objective. "
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" If there is any action that punishes imports to the North American market and encourages U.S. exports, you have to reflect it in a mirror action to counteract the change of incentives that this would make for activity and investment in Mexico. "
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" The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies. "
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" At the end of the day, we have obviously our own political realities that will not allow us to approve something that is not in the benefit of everybody. "
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" E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA. "
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" If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions. "
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" NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved. "
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" NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations between Canada and Mexico. "
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