Rob Portman Trade Quotations

U.S. trade officials are working to make Hong Kong a success. The U.S. government is totally committed to Hong Kong.

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

We welcome the progress made today and will continue to press for additional steps to promote greater equity, durability and balance in the US-China trade relationship.

Despite three consecutive years of growing U.S. exports to China, our bilateral trade relationship with China today lacks equity, durability and balance in the opportunities it provides. The time has come to readjust our trade policy with respect to China.

I'm seeing a little bit of a different spirit today. You see people coming together this morning as we discussed to say this ought to be a single-undertaking and we ought to work to bring all of these issues together including trade facilitation, development and rules into one package. Not you go first, then I'll go, but rather we need to do it simultaneously together.

The findings confirm that U.S. duties on Canadian lumber to counter were properly imposed under international trade rules,

An agreement with Peru is a key building block in our strategy to advance free trade within our hemisphere. We hope to later bring in the other Andean countries including Colombia and Ecuador.