free trade

noun

: trade based on the unrestricted international exchange of goods with tariffs used only as a source of revenue

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The two countries, along with Canada, have shared free trade agreements for more than three decades. —

Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025 Will there be many foreign multinationals willing to build factories in Mexico, now that the same U.S. president who re-negotiated and signed the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement has threatened to effectively nix it? —

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025 In recent years, Canada has signed major free trade agreements, including the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the EU and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which includes Japan, Australia, and other Pacific nations. —

David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025 The tariffs represent a massive shift in U.S. trade policy with Canada and Mexico that has been focused on free trade since the early 1990s. —

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for free trade