25 Quotes by David Spooner

We have just ended the fourth round of negotiations with the Chinese aimed at reaching a broad agreement.

There are many different colors solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

There are many different colors -- solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade. But the United States will have no hesitation in walking away from a bad deal.

Our overall goal, as we've said all along, is to reach a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade. The US has been using its right under China's WTO accession agreement to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption, and we will continue to do so as appropriate.

We have had extremely productive discussions over the last two days and I am hopeful that we can wrap up, if not today, then at another meeting,

We have had extremely productive discussions over the last two days,

We have not come to an agreement that meets the needs of our domestic manufacturers and retailers.