Philip Hammond Quotes

Our trade opens to all the world.

Our business thrives on free and open global trade.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

I fully support global commerce.

Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

The British Empire (with the exception of a very short period in the 1930s) was a free trade empire, unlike all the other great empires of the world …. Anyone could trade with the British Empire.

Trade is injured when it is not allowed to follow its natural course, and when it is either hampered or diverted by artificial obstacles. ...We believe in free trade because we believe in the capacity of our countrymen. That at least is why I oppose protection root and branch, veiled and unveiled, one-sided or reciprocal. I oppose it in any form

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

We have to work towards free trade because otherwise we will miss out on many opportunities for cooperation, and relations amongst countries will become much more difficult.

Globally, we need to make sure that markets are open... If we see that there are restrictions on free trade, then simple economic logic will demonstrate that this is not beneficial.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I mean there are economic ties - there are trade routes that need to be secured. You know international trade can't happen if you don't have open oceans.

Twenty-seven member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry, let alone what they are going to do on free trade deals with the rest of the world.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

We are in favor of free trade.

Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must be open.

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.