trade agreement

noun

|Updated on: 14 Aug 2018

Definition of trade agreement

1 : an international agreement on conditions of trade in goods and services

2 : an agreement resulting from collective bargaining

Recent Examples of trade agreement from the Web

At the White House in April, Mr. Trump suggested to visiting French President Emmanuel Macron that France leave the EU, after which the U.S. would offer France its own trade agreement, according to European officials.

— bojan pancevski, WSJ, "Summit Looms for a Strained NATO Alliance," 9 July 2018
She is nevertheless expected to seek assurances from Trump that the United States is ready to enter negotiations on a bilateral trade agreement.

— stephen castle, BostonGlobe.com, "The hidden, high-tech world of communications at Fenway Park," 9 July 2018
This would leave the US even further behind in the race to sign preferential trade agreements.

— emily stewart, Vox, "Can the US-China trade war be stopped? 11 experts weigh in.," 8 July 2018
Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed hope that the tariffs can be quickly removed and a new trade agreement can be agreed upon by the world's two largest economies.

— chris ciaccia, Fox News, "Trump's trade war cited as a major risk by US companies," 6 July 2018
Amid their current lack of any available cap space, the only way for the Heat to have had acquired James this summer would have been a sign-and-trade agreement that would have been subject to the approval of both James and the Cavaliers.

— ira winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, "LeBron heads west, signing with Lakers, no longer a Heat conference rival," 2 July 2018
The company announced plans to build the new factory in Thailand after the Trump administration withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that would have lowered Asian tariffs on some of its motorcycles.

— aimee picchi, CBS News, "Harley-Davidson vs. Trump: Who's right, who's wrong in president's latest trade fight," 26 June 2018
The factors that go into a trade deficit are much bigger than trade agreements.

— recode staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Obama administration Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on Recode Decode," 21 June 2018
Democrats also called for legislation that would require greater transparency from drug makers, and improvements to trade agreements that could make drugs more affordable.

— erin mershon, STAT, "Democrats offer a counterpoint to Trump’s drug pricing policy before major speech," 10 May 2018

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