How to Use free trade in a Sentence

free trade

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  • 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
  • For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • 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
  • The Marshall Plan, the World Bank and the framework of free trade all pointed in this direction.
    — David Von Drehle, The Denver Post, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • If India’s economic unity broke, so would the largest free trade area in the world.
    — Raghvendra Singh, Quartz India, 9 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Trump’s opposition to free trade is changing the way the public thinks about the issue.
    — Benjamin Toff, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The former Canadian prime minister forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a sweeping free trade agreement that was once vilified but is now celebrated.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024

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