I think is an important topic and i appreciate everybody who came out this morning as well. I can tell you i take seriously the advice i get from my staff and one of the messages i get repeatedly from my staff, they like to take me aside and remember just because you cant give a good speech doesnt mean you cant give a short speech. I will keep that in mind as i work my way through my remarks and look forward to the exchange with derek. Lets talk about us mca. When we talk about this, it is worth having a starting point, a question about nafta. Why is it the administration felt it was necessary to renegotiate nafta. That is starting point for us mca. Was it nafta was an unfair, unbalanced agreement, or tariffs that were unacceptable obstacles to trade . Now to all those questions. Nafta is a freetrade agreement. 0 tariffs on 97 of agricultural goods, no quotas, no obstacles, the epitome of a free, fair, reciprocal trade agreement and since nafta was implemented, american exports from me
Earlier today senator pat toomey of pennsylvania spoke out against the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement at an event hosted by the American Enterprise institute. Following his remarks, senator toomey took questions from the audience. This is an hour. Thanks for the kind introduction and thank you for hosting this and giving me this chance to share my thoughts and have a conversation about what i think is an important topic. I a preesh everyboppreciate eve out, as well. I can, and one of the messages i get repeatedly from my staff, they like to take me aside, it doesnt mean you cant give a short speech and ill keep that advice in mind as i work through my remarks and look forward to the exchange with derek. So when i think of usmca, its a starting point about nafta. Why did the u. S. Feel it was necessary to renegotiate nafta because that was the start of usmca. So was it that nafta was an unfair, unbalanced agreement or a lack of reciprocity or was it left that the tariffs left in naf
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handovers over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to use China Business council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President jake parker will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey and then we will open it to questions. So at this point its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and on the president of use China Business council, and would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent survey which we are releasing here today. So thank you again for joining us. So just a couple of words of background at this sta
Business climate in china and how it could affect trade relations with the u. S. This is one hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handouts over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to the u. S. China Business Council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president , craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President , jake parker, will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey, and then we will open it to questions. So at this point, its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Alan good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and the president of the u. S. China Business Council, and we would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent surve
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. If you will kindly take your seats. Latecomers will be accommodated. There are handovers over on the right you will want to have with you or take away with you. Please help yourself to some coffee. Welcome to use China Business council. This is a press conference talking about our annual member survey, and it will be done in three parts. The first part i will introduce our president craig allen, and then after that our Senior Vice President jake parker will walk you through some of the highlights of the survey and then we will open it to questions. So at this point its my pleasure to introduce you to president alan. Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. My name again is craig allen and on the president of use China Business council, and would like to welcome you here to discuss our most recent survey which we are releasing here today. So thank you again for joining us. So just a couple of words of background at this sta