Numerical targets lead to managed trade, which flies in the face of the free marketsystem, most notably by deviating from the principles of economic efficiency and well-being embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement.
Our common values, our common belief in the rule of law, in democracy, in freedom, in a free marketsystem -- all those things bind us together, as do the extraordinary economic and commercial relationships that we have and the people-to-people relationships that we have.