free trade

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Recent Examples of free trade Under a decades-long free trade agreement, South Korean tariffs on most U.S. goods are already zero, meaning there are fewer concessions Seoul can offer, analysts say. Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025 But interfering with free trade can be dangerous to national security, too. Caleb Petitt, National Review, 10 July 2025 Washington’s actions stretching back through multiple administrations, however, create a difficult environment for mineral-rich countries that seek investment but are not amongst the partners of the U.S. with a free trade agreement. Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025 Liberal principles such as free trade and the right to asylum, although appealing in theory, robbed the United States of the ability to preserve its domestic industrial power and control its border. Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for free trade
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Noun
  • Editor’s tip: Guests who prefer to skirt the grips of Mexico City traffic can arrive at the property by landing at its very own rooftop helipad.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 13 July 2025
  • The Delaware River Port Authority crews began searching the river after the truck cab crossed three lanes of traffic, went onto the concrete pad near the Delaware anchorage and crashed through a concrete wall around 3:40 a.m. Friday.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 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
  • Those dignitaries included the governor of Telangana, the mayor of Hyderabad, members of Parliament, the minister of state for commerce and industry and the state minister of information technology.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The Nabataeans were an incredibly skilled trading tribe in the spice trade.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • In 1983, a dentist in Michigan executed the world’s first online trade from his home computer, sending an order through Trade Plus—a precursor to E*Trade.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 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
  • Turns out those boring beige shorts may not have been the merchandising masterstroke Target was hoping for.
    Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
  • This should bring in fast scaling of concerts and merchandising revenue, and provide stronger evidence that Hybe can repeatedly produce Mega IPs.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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

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