free trade

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Recent Examples of free trade Meanwhile, the evidence of the downsides of free trade for U.S. workers had become more apparent. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 17 June 2025 Politicians once debated the merits of tariffs versus free trade. Kyle Handley, National Review, 11 June 2025 Distrust of free trade has been rising in both political parties in the United States. Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025 Mira Rapp-Hooper, a former National Security Council official in the Biden White House who worked on alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, said the Trump administration may be underestimating the impact of its assault on free trade. Damien Cave, New York Times, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for free trade
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Noun
  • Over time, it's transformed into a comprehensive resource, offering traffic updates, points of interest and real-time navigation.
    Ben Verghese, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star Bot Updated July 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • But the underlying rails that power payments haven’t kept pace with the fluidity of today’s digital marketplaces.
    Paul Marcantonio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The digital services tax is a 3% tax on revenue earned in the country from large online marketplace services, online advertising services, social media services and certain sales of user data.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Because of this, countries seeking out nuclear weapons often must turn to black markets or other clandestine methods in order to obtain the raw materials for fissile material — which is time-consuming and expensive.
    Brendan Rascius July 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
  • The Pyongyang regime also bought technology and hardware abroad through front companies or on the black market, according to U.N. monitors.
    Dan De Luce, NBC news, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Conducting or participating in the conduct through a pattern of racketeering activity of such affairs of an enterprise affecting interstate commerce.
    Steve Weisman, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • In addition to flood damage, April’s extreme weather also disrupted commerce — shutting down highways, closing locks and dam systems on the Ohio River, and pushing UPS to take the rare step of suspending some operations at the Louisville Worldport, the company’s largest global air hub.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The Nabataeans were an incredibly skilled trading tribe in the spice trade.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Although the Hornets could benefit from having him around again, his economical contract expires next summer and can be also used in a trade.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • You shouldn’t be worried as long as the filler is FDA-approved, purchased from a legitimate source (not gray market) and injected by a qualified professional.
    Carlos Wolf, Miami Herald, 19 June 2025
  • The city is moving aggressively to shut down the once-thriving gray market — a matter of public safety, and also essential for the legal medical cannabis industry to thrive.
    Anna Spiegel, Axios, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Under the former Gucci global chief merchandising officer’s leadership, Re/Done aims to grow its direct-to-consumer business and expand into new categories and global markets.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 26 June 2025
  • Well, not quite, but Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin still frolicked on set during the show's recurring View Your Deal merchandising segment.
    EW.com, EW.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • With a single vicuña fiber jacket retailing for more than $20,000, however, many in the community hope to increase their earnings.
    David Nolan, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
  • If Bezos’ $240 billion is 2.2% of the social value of Amazon’s revolution in retailing, then Bezos must have created $11 trillion in wealth for the rest of us.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025

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