The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.
We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.
Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.
There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.