Rob Portman Kong Quotations

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

U.S. trade officials are working to make Hong Kong a success. The U.S. government is totally committed to Hong Kong.

I do believe that the promise of Doha hangs in the balance. I believe the time is too short for us to have wasted weeks, and I believe that unless we see progress soon, it will be very difficult to envision a successful Hong Kong meeting and a successful completion of the round at the end of 2006.