I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.

We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing.

As we learned after President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff at the outset of the Great Depression, vibrant international trade is a key component to economic recovery; hindering trade is a recipe for disaster.

Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.

When you talk about mandatory minimums, it created a lot of unfairness in our sentencing.

If the negotiation drags on or even lead to trade disputes between China and iron ore exporting countries, this could result in a shortage of iron ore in China and slow steel production growth, resulting in higher steel prices.