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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Defend workers and union rights, and hammer away at China and free trade deals.
    Eric Bradner, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • Total Wine, however, views it as a restraint of free trade.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Mark Kelly Is anybody left in Washington who will speak up for free trade?
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • In many cases, the argument for free trade is not about utopian theories of world peace.
    Dominic Pino, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The law states that the mining of minerals has to take place domestically or in a country where the U.S. has a free trade agreement.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • This is the legal definition that the U.S. uses when there is free trade with a foreign nation.
    Maria Jimenez Moya, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
  • But many of them are now flocking to Serbia, a country that is seeking to join the European Union and enjoys tariff-free trade with the bloc.
    Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Watch the full report on free trade coffee on an episode of Impact by Nightline streaming on Hulu.
    ABC News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Seoul has signed 18 free trade pacts with other countries, including the United States.
    David Isaac, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Gulf nations, with whom the UAE has free trade agreements, account for a large proportion of Dubai's exports and re-exports.
    Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • The over-all national income is higher in the United States with free trade, but the majority of people are worse off.
    Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Where both parties once favored free trade agreements and spent decades expanding them around the globe, now neither party does.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Many of those countries are eager to ink a free trade deal that would open up American and Asian markets and loosen China’s economic grip on the region.
    Courtney Subramanianstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • In 2016, Donald Trump won the state, promising to bring back auto-industry jobs and denouncing free trade and faraway élites.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Said that he’s voted against international free trade deals for years.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The firm’s business model relies on tax breaks for services rendered that are included in free trade agreements.
    Robert Ginsburg, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022

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