Harold MacMillan Quotes

Free export of tobacco to foreign markets.

I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

Do all that … the increase of trade should require.

I believe in removing barriers in international trade. Part of the reason is that this creates huge markets for all of our products.

Our trade opens to all the world.

From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

But I think we need the international market.

I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.

I fully support global commerce.

The European conflict shall not be continued by economic war after the military operations have ceased. British policy shall be directed toward promoting free commercial intercourse between all nations …

The popular notion is that imports are bad and exports are good.

Ninepence for fourpence

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

The whole experience of the last 20 years of government trading in commodities, credit and shipping has demonstrated that it is alive with international friction and threats to peace …. The long view should be to restore international trade to free enterprise.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.

In international trade it’s always the 5 percent of that which works less well that gets most of the attention compared to the 95 percent that is functioning well.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

Maintaining confidence in international trade will be critical to the broader economic recovery in the post-Covid world.

Trade and globalization are here to stay.

Getting trade policy right is huge for our economy and huge for Maryland. This is about creating Maryland jobs by selling Maryland products to Asia, moving right from Western Maryland farms out through the Port of Baltimore.