David Spooner Quotations

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.

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.

Despite our best efforts, we were not able to reach a broader agreement.

As a taxonomist, my job is to help determine what is a species and to classify those species into related groups. Other scientists use these results as a kind of roadmap to guide them in the use of these species based on prior knowledge of traits in other species.

a longer-term solution that will permit greater stability in textile and apparel trade.

It seems if we can get them here, they enjoy it and want to come back.

The U.S. has been using its right under China's WTO accession to invoke safeguards in cases of market disruption or the threat of market disruption. However, our preference is to seek a longer-term solution that will permit the orderly development of textile and apparel trade.

In contrast to all prior hypotheses of multiple origins of the cultivated potato, we have identified a single origin from a broad area of southern Peru.

In our numerous consultations with our domestic textile and apparel industries and members of Congress, we heard unambiguous calls for a more comprehensive approach to textile trade with China, ... As a result, we will commence negotiations on a broad agreement with the Chinese.