25 Quotes by David Spooner

We have made good progress in our discussions over the past couple of days. Although we still have differences, we feel that additional time to work on the issues would be beneficial.

We were able to make progress, particularly with product coverage and quota levels, but we did not reach an agreement with the Chinese.

We will continue to enforce our trade laws to ensure that U.S. industry receives relief from unfair imports and we believe that a durable, negotiated resolution is the best way to resolve this dispute with Canada.

This result shows the potato originated one time and from a species that was distributed in southern Peru.

We will be meeting with the Chinese again next month and will be consulting with them soon on the location and exact date of the next round of negotiations.

We are very pleased with the comparative sections. They provide us information on what they have done successfully.

Our discussions this week have yielded substantial progress on a large number of issues. We look forward to meeting again soon.

The multiple-origins theory was based in part on the broad distribution of potatoes from north to south across many different habitats, through morphological resemblance of different wild species to cultivated species, and through other data. Our DNA data, however, shows that in fact all cultivated potatoes can be traced back to a single origin in southern Peru.

Despite our best efforts we were not able to reach a broader agreement. The US remains optimistic that we can continue to make progress on the remaining issues.