Today's agreement will lower barriers even further than the historic GATT world trade agreement.

The Asian-Pacific leaders pledged to achieve free and fair trade and investment between our nations by the year 2020.

GATT will require all nations to finally do what we've already done, to cut tariffs and other barriers and open up trade to our products and our services.

This strategy must include breaking down trade barriers, opening markets, and increasing our exports.

I urge them to do so again by passing the GATT agreement this year.

It would be a great setback for the United States if the Uruguay Round were not approved in this short period.

Let me say that just this year, our exports to Mexico since we adopted NAFTA are up by 18 or 19 percent, 3 times the overall growth in our trade.

I am writing to inform you of my intent to add Belarus and Uzbekistan to the list of beneficiary developing countries under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).

We can see this year that automobile sales, for example, to Mexico are growing at five times the rate of last year.

I decided on April 11, 1994, to prohibit the bringing or importation into the United States of fish and wildlife products of Taiwan.

A world of free and stable trading partners is not only good for our economic security, it's important for our national security.

The dynamism in the U.S.-Indian relationship is that Americans are more interested in India now as an economic player, and therefore, that's what's driving -- creating a larger constituency in this country for a relationship with India.

We cannot be the only nation not to ratify the GATT this year.

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We are ready to do business with the democratically chosen leaders of any nations who are willing to deal with us on honorable terms.

I am directing the United States Trade Representative to develop a plan to monitor imports of honey from China.

The United States is prepared to provide technical assistance to help Ukraine implement a trade regime consistent with GATT membership.

Both countries are committed to making greater efforts to develop commercial projects based on trade, joint ventures and foreign direct investment.