He could not begin to imagine the trade benefits that would bring to his door.
Even partial revocation of trade benefits, which the Administration is said to be considering, would not work.
Today's linkage between trade benefits and human rights is simply too narrow to do the job.
Administration officials said last week that the President would decide within two weeks whether to restore the trade benefits.
The vote was 260 to 170 to reject a measure that would have ended the trade benefits.
The amount we spend via this scheme of trade benefits is higher than the total European budget for development cooperation.
It offers trade benefits to the countries that are most in need of them.
We are told that free trade benefits employment and growth.
That is nearly four times the Commission's own estimate of the trade benefits from the single market.
But what about the admitted trade benefits of the single market?