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 -
For the rest of 2020, free trade and free movement between the United Kingdom and the E.U. will continue.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2020 -
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 -
The European customs union allows for free trade among the 28 member states.
— Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019 -
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 -
One of the more surprising developments in recent American politics has been the backlash against free trade.
— Erik Guzik / The Conversation, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024 -
Establishing a foreign policy based on free trade among countries was key to the American experiment.
— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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