How to Use free trade in a Sentence

free trade

noun
  • New Zealand and Britain agreed to a free trade deal in 2021.
    Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Most Americans think of the EU as a free trade area with frills.
    Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Both assume that the country cannot compete in a world of open markets and free trade.
    Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Hainan wants to be the center of travel retail and free trade in China.
    Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Both sides have spent this year trying to agree on a free trade deal that will allow the movement of goods to and from Britain.
    NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Mexico has a free trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2024
  • But support for free trade has been eroding for a while in the European Union.
    Pieter Cleppe, National Review, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Britain will leave the European Union at the end of 2020, with or without a new free trade deal, Johnson vows.
    Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
  • No case for a free trade agreement can be made with statistics like these.
    Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Indonesia does not have a free trade agreement with the United States.
    Trevor Hunnicutt, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, most modern games tokenize all assets for free trade from the get-go.
    Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The new rules aim to promote barrier-free trade within states and across the country.
    Atul Prakash, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Either way, Africa may start to reap the benefits of a free trade deal that came into effect in 2021.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 2 Feb. 2023
  • In a report published last week, Schmieding said that under Biden the two sides may even look to do a free trade deal.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Defend workers and union rights, and hammer away at China and free trade deals.
    Eric Bradner, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • This argument is based on the potential virtues of free trade.
    WSJ, 19 June 2020
  • Mulroney forged close ties with the United States through a sweeping free trade agreement.
    Rob Gillies The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The country should roll back tariffs, strike more free trade deals with major economies and trade blocs, and cut back on the use of anti-dumping.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • Yet this measure was met with fierce resistance, mainly from Britain, in the name of free trade and the freedom of movement.
    On Barak, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The ridiculous notion that Turkey was going to join the EU by 2020, the notion that free trade agreements will be signed overnight.
    Oliver Staley, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Total Wine, however, views it as a restraint of free trade.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • For decades, the Republicans styled themselves as the party of big business and free trade.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • His past advocacy of free trade deals didn’t hurt him at all with voters.
    Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Mark Kelly Is anybody left in Washington who will speak up for free trade?
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The two countries signed an agreement on a strategic partnership in 2016 and a free trade agreement last year.
    Justin Spike, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 May 2024
  • And that cuts at the heart of America's commitment to free enterprise and free markets and free trade, et cetera.
    CBS News, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Before 2007, most thought ever-growing free trade with China was a good thing.
    George Bradt, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • African countries are the ones who must make their historic free trade agreement work, but having allies from other parts of the world doesn’t hurt.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Over the past two years, however, New Delhi has gone on a signing spree, inking free trade agreements with more than a dozen partners around the world, including wealthy Western economies.
    Trevor Sutton, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the meantime, some Republican leaders counter-attacked Trump over tariff proposals that would wreck free trade.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2024

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