Digital Quote by Gita Gopinath

A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff…

— Victor Fung

In an era of global value chains, worldwide sourcing and the never-ending search for new markets, we must be careful to avoid the proliferation…

— Roberto Azevedo

There is a need for greater multilateral cooperation to resolve trade conflicts, to address climate change and risks from cybersecurity, and to improve the…

— Gita Gopinath

Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all…

— Andrew Robb

For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral…

— Victor Fung

For 60 years, since World War II, we have been trying to create a rules-based system, a global economic system. We understand that what…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based…

— Antonio Guterres

For Latin American countries seeking to play a bigger role in global trade, effectively implementing trade-facilitating reforms could be an important tool in their…

— Arancha Gonzalez

Liberalized trade - in broadly multilateral, regional, or bilateral agreements - is a key ingredient in the recipe for prosperity... An absolute prerequisite for…

— Kevin Hassett

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

— Robert Zoellick

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

— Barry Gardiner

What exactly is trade facilitation? In a nutshell, it is an effort to enable global trade by reducing red tape and streamline customs. In…

— Arancha Gonzalez