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There’s a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it’s actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they’re still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

I want to be a fair trader. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

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