Rubio: ‘I Support Free Trade Deals that Are Good for America’

RUBIO: "I support free trade deals that are good for America. We’re 5% of the world’s population. If all we do is sell things do each other, we can only sell to 5% of the people on Earth. We have to have access to the hundreds of millions of people in the world today who can afford to buy things. The problem is we’re a low tariff country. To import something into the United States is not very expensive. But many of these countries we can’t export to because their tariffs are too high. I’m in favor of deals that allow us to bring down those tariffs so America can sell things to people all around the world. There are good trade deals and bad ones. Here in Florida we’ve benefited from the free trade deal with Colombia. It’s allowed flower exporters to come into the United States but created jobs for hundreds of people who are now delivering those flowers and working in that industry. We have a surplus with Colombia. On the other hand you’ve seen trade deals in Mexico less than promising in some asects, better in others. I believe that America, if given access to foreign markets, our workers are the most productive in the world. Our people are the most innovative on this planet. If it’s a free and fair trade deal we can compete against anyone in the world and we need to in the 21st century."