Britain must not pull the rug out under trade with EU - Hammond

British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Mondayrebalancing trade with the EU was a delicate process which should be done gradually, and that product standards should stay the same after Brexit."We have to be very, very careful and we need a very, very gradual process of rebalancing our trade between Europe and the rest of the world," Hammond said at an event at the Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham.Hammond said goods regulation in the EU had been stable for the last two