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Recent Examples of free trade
Human and workers’ rights, environmental protections, child labor laws, and community standards are general impediments to the profit motives inherent in multilateral free trade agreements.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Currently, Mexico faces 25 percent duties on goods that don’t meet USMCA rules of origin, while Canada faces 35 percent duties on goods not covered by the free trade agreement.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Dec. 2025
The trio of nations are also set to review the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement next year.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
Trump can be seen as a bastion of free trade for the Silicon Valley capitalists, a beacon of white Christian America to the heartland Evangelicals, and a fascist demagogue to the blood and soil nationalists.
—Ryan Broderick, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 5 Dec. 2025
Currently, Mexico faces 25 percent duties on goods that don’t meet USMCA rules of origin, while Canada faces 35 percent duties on goods not covered by the free trade agreement.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Dec. 2025
The trio of nations are also set to review the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement next year.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
Trump can be seen as a bastion of free trade for the Silicon Valley capitalists, a beacon of white Christian America to the heartland Evangelicals, and a fascist demagogue to the blood and soil nationalists.
—Ryan Broderick, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free trade
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Another feature, multipath operations, sends high-priority traffic across multiple paths and frequencies simultaneously.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Jan. 2026
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Duties include patrolling residential neighborhoods, shopping centers, business parks, schools, local parks and assisting with traffic control, home vacation and elderly welfare checks.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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The credits are available to people who bought health care policies in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Unrest at the Tehran bazaar is particularly unsettling for officials because the shuttering of shops at the ancient marketplace and protests from the merchant class were key elements that led to the overthrow of the monarchy in 1979.—
Henry Austin,
NBC news,
7 Jan. 2026
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The carton of cigarettes alone was worth $10,000 on the jail’s black market, according to a Bronx DA spokesperson.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2026
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They are bought abroad, smuggled in and traded on the black market.—
John Ruwitch,
NPR,
15 Jan. 2026
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Daisy Murray, a fashion commerce editor at Grazia who also used a camcorder at her garden wedding, agrees.—
Sara Radin,
Vogue,
13 Jan. 2026
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Those rights are protected by state law and case precedent (not federal registration) and are based on using a trademark in commerce, such as selling a product under a particular brand name.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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The trade association outlined its concerns over consolidation in a statement to a House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee, which is holding a hearing on Wednesday on competition in digital streaming.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Sabres run into some significant issues down the lineup — upgrading the fourth line should be among Kekäläinen’s most pressing priorities between now and the trade deadline — but young centre Noah Ostlund has helped give Buffalo’s usually problematic fourth line some connective heft and floor.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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But the size of the gray market may be fundamentally at odds with its viability.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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While marketing software through Telegram isn’t inherently nefarious, researchers say that Haotian’s customer base has increasingly skewed toward scammers who already seek out information about an array of gray market services on the messaging app.—
Matt Burgess,
Wired News,
18 Dec. 2025
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Last January, the AI smart-shopping company named Loretta Choy—aka the former chief merchandising and customer service officer of Stitch Fix, who left the company in May 2024 after four years in the role—as CFY’s chief merchandising officer.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Jan. 2026
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During her senior year of college, Krohne also started her full-time job, working in digital merchandising and strategy at British online fashion retailer ASOS — a significant boon to her content.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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But according to the lawyers, bankers and industry veterans who have been watching, fielding last-second job offers and, in some cases, participating behind the scenes, the next chapter for Saks Global — and luxury department store retailing — is about to begin.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
13 Jan. 2026
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To note, the brand centers natural and textured haircare products, with most products retailing at $30 or closer to $10 when in a big bundle.—
Essence,
Essence,
7 Jan. 2026
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