Quotes by Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal - Page 1

We believe more in bridges and making the border better.
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Bridges
Border
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The Pacific Alliance is an initiative to align our economies.
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Initiative
Pacific
Align
Alliance
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A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.
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Nafta
Scenario
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NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.
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Great Success
Nafta
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We all know that China is not a free trader. That's the reality.
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China
Trader
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E-commerce, telecom - those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.
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Captured
Nafta
Telecom
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Every challenge has the opportunity to convert into a winning proposition.
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Convert
Proposition
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The next generation of entrepreneurs are already named Martinez or Sanchez.
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Generation Next Generation Next
Named
Entrepreneurs
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The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past.
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Nafta
Negotiating
Past Back Go
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NAFTA will continue to regulate the relationship between Mexico and Canada.
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Canada
Mexico
Nafta
Regulate
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Free trade and economic stability do not, by themselves, guarantee success.
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Free Trade
Stability
Guarantee
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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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Compete
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We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.
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Nafta
Grounds
Modernize
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It makes no sense to introduce an agreement with border restrictions or tariffs.
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Border
Introduce
No Sense
Restrictions
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We must ensure that decisions we make today do not come back to haunt us tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Must
Ensure
Haunt
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We have to start a process of looking at what's next after we complete the modernization effort.
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Modernization
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NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.
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Nafta
Discussions
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You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.
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Ingredient
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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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Mexico
Obstacles
Foot
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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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Opening
Pandora
Pandora's Box
Proposition
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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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Agreement
Handiwork
Tailor
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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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Apples
Corn
Iowa
Washington State
Apple
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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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Agreement
Enforcement
Nafta
Trade
Since
More Us Than
Region
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We understand U.S. position, but we have to find a way to make trade translate into better jobs in North America.
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North America
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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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Canada
Mexico
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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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Mexican
Mexico
Safety
Guarantee
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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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Measured
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I do believe that as the country becomes more attractive in the manufacturing sector, salaries can improve, and opportunities can expand.
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Attractive
Manufacturing
Becomes
Expand
Opportunities
Salaries
Sector
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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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Toyota
Employs
Plants
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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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Closeness
Mexico
North America
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Thanks
Sector
Valley
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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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Sovereign
Border
Sovereign Nation
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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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Approve
Benefit
Realities
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I'm not going to negotiate with Brazil for its pretty face. I'm going to negotiate with Brazil because they're going to open their car-manufacturing market.
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Brazil
Pretty Face
Negotiate
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Let me first clarify that NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. The decision of walking away is not of Mexico or Canada. The decision of walking away is of the U.S.
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Canada
Mexico
Nafta
Clarify
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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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Cuban
Mexican
Mexico
Strategic
Zone
Investments
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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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Loyal
Mexican
National Identity
Sanctions
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We are fed up with complaints that Mexico is stealing jobs from U.S. manufacturing. We are part of the solution that has maintained competitiveness for the U.S. versus China.
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Competitiveness
Complaints
Fed Up
Mexico
Stealing
Versus
Fed
Maintained
Solution
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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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Conditions
Investor
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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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Canada
Collapse
Mexico
Nafta
Possibility
Leaves
Treaty
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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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Adequate
Chains
Components
North America
Signals
Strengthening
List
New Technologies
Technologies
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Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad to consider any type of process that would stabilize the Mexican peso.
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Currency
Floating
Glad
Manipulation
Mexican
Schemes
Exchange
Stabilize
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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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Restriction
Work Long Way
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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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Competitiveness
Mexico
Ministry
Achieving
Element
Objective
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The end-to-end value chain analysis proposed by the World Economic Forum has proved to be useful methodology, not only to identify trade barriers but also to highlight the importance of coordination among public-sector institutions.
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Analysis
Barriers
Coordination
Importance
Methodology
Chain
Forum
Highlight
Identify
Proposed
Proved
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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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Ireland
Mexico
Base
Gateway
North American
Partner
Take Advantage
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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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Decree
Demand
Efficient
Qualifications
Workers
Work End Of The Day Day
Salaries
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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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Imports
Incentives
Investment
Mexico
Counteract
Encourages
Exports
North American
Reflect
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One of the good things that's happening in manufacturing in Mexico is that the old maquiladora that was relegated to just assembling things has changed in different sectors. One of these sectors is the aerospace industry and in how we attract workers that have been in technical school.
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Aerospace
Assembling
Good Things
Manufacturing
Mexico
Workers
Attract
Sectors
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There is an old tool that has become very handy that is called strategic patience, which is do not overreact in the short-term. Take your time. See what is the underlying, real message. And then, once the reality is represented by actions, then decide how you are going to react to those actions.
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Short Term
Strategic
React
Underlying
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