The rhetoric will be stepped up on trade.

A comprehensive trade agreement would take the downward pressure off not only for American producers but for other countries as well,

Korea is a very protected economy. It will be a fight in this country and in South Korea to get it ratified.

That will mean Canada for lumber, and Latin America also has a lot of the most relevant supplies that are needed in the United States, ... There will be tariff relief.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America, ... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

It suggests the drag on the economy from the trade deficit in the third quarter will not be as great and could help revise up third-quarter GDP a bit,