free trade
noun
: trade based on the unrestricted international exchange of goods with tariffs used only as a source of revenue
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Foreign policy hasn’t dominated a Canadian election this much since 1988, when free trade with the United States was the prevailing issue.
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Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Foreign policy hasn’t dominated Canadian elections this much since 1988, when free trade with the United States was the prevailing issue.
—Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
And Pettis, a professor at Peking University in Beijing and a longtime skeptic of the free trade consensus, argues that this reckoning in global trade has been decades in the making—and considers what an alternative economic system could look like.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
That’s why the economist Robert Mundell argued that free trade and floating exchange rates are inherently incompatible – one justification for the creation of the Eurozone.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Rob Gillies, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
Foreign policy hasn’t dominated Canadian elections this much since 1988, when free trade with the United States was the prevailing issue.
—Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
And Pettis, a professor at Peking University in Beijing and a longtime skeptic of the free trade consensus, argues that this reckoning in global trade has been decades in the making—and considers what an alternative economic system could look like.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 Apr. 2025
That’s why the economist Robert Mundell argued that free trade and floating exchange rates are inherently incompatible – one justification for the creation of the Eurozone.
—Nathan Lewis, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Free trade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20trade. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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