Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos Miguel Gutierrezis an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a Co-Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory firm...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 November 1953
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When China fails to act, it only strengthens those who want to build protectionist barriers around the U.S. market and that's the last thing we need.
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Without the free-trade agreement, these results would not have been possible,
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We saw quite a bit of interest and we had quite a few applications for this trip,
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We have made progress. There is still work to do.
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We are taking action now because of the significant economic effects of Hurricane Katrina on fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Major commercial fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico include finfish, shrimp and oysters, with an estimated value of almost $700 million per year.
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We did say that CAFTA is going to do all these things, so now let's go out and deliver, ... From the standpoint of executing CAFTA, we're really only 10% of the way there.
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We went into this hurricane with a strong economy, with a resilient economy and we'll have a short-term impact but we will be right back to the growth that we saw before,
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The reality of trade with China continues to fall short of the potential. If our economic relationship is to stay afloat, China needs to lighten the load by carrying out reforms and delivering results.
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only then will the region be truly reborn.
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Imagine going to the grocery store and watching 17 out of 20 customers shoplifting items from the shelves and walking out of the store without paying.
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We used to try to see what other work we could grab. Now our mission is to be seen as a high-technology plant.
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We want to grow where consumers are going and we want to follow consumers, ... We know consumers are eating more snacks and more portable food. We want to capture that and what we have needed up to now was a powerful distribution system.
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The protection of intellectual property is vital to our economic growth and global competitiveness, and it has major consequences in our ongoing effort to promote security and stability around the world,
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What we need now is encouragement, support, motivation, vision, foresight, and courage, ... We aren't spending a lot of time looking back. We are looking at what we can do for people today and tomorrow. That's our focus. We're just not going to spend time right now looking backwards.