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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.

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

There is no pure free-market economy.

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.