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Recent Examples of free trade
After years of promoting globalization and free trade agreements, in the past decade, U.S. policymakers have coalesced around an economic agenda that emphasizes industrial policy and supply chain security.
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Roger W. Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2025
Trump’s return to the White House on Monday was on everyone’s lips, overshadowing traditional Davos talk about issues like climate change, free trade and economic development.
—Jamey Keaten and David McHugh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
While free trade agreements promise mutual benefits through comparative advantage and open markets, the reality often diverges from this ideal.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Trudeau also addressed Trump’s executive action, signed Monday, that directs officials to analyze how the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (the USMCA) is affecting American workers and businesses — and whether America should remain in the free trade agreement.
—Eve Brennan, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Roger W. Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 30 Jan. 2025
Trump’s return to the White House on Monday was on everyone’s lips, overshadowing traditional Davos talk about issues like climate change, free trade and economic development.
—Jamey Keaten and David McHugh, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
While free trade agreements promise mutual benefits through comparative advantage and open markets, the reality often diverges from this ideal.
—Robert Daugherty, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
Trudeau also addressed Trump’s executive action, signed Monday, that directs officials to analyze how the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (the USMCA) is affecting American workers and businesses — and whether America should remain in the free trade agreement.
—Eve Brennan, CNN, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for free trade
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Sacramento police and Sacramento City Unified School District security personnel patrolled the march and limited traffic along Freeport and surrounding streets.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Feb. 2025
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Residents also use the avenue to skip traffic on the parallel Marginal Tietê during the morning rush hour, when the crash likely occurred. Footage from the aftermath on Friday showed black clouds of smoke and bright orange flames unfurling over the highway.—
Ana Melgar,
CNN,
7 Feb. 2025
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State Senator Kelly Hancock, who sponsored the state’s 2017 autonomous-driving legislation, said the legislature wanted to promote the industry’s growth in a competitive marketplace and avoid barriers to entry.—
Chris Kirkham and Abhirup Roy,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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One item on her to-do list: figure out how to expand Karl’s audience, even as the marketplace is awash in alternative beverages: seltzers, kombuchas, boutique spirits, non-alcoholic beers, alcopops and more.—
Peter Rowe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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These animals are killed for their parts — their horns and tusks and claws and bones — which are then sold on the global black market.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
29 Jan. 2025
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Professional, organized thieves swooping into stores in groups to steal high-demand items to sell on the black market.—
Cailey Locklair,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025
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Her team filed a six-month extension twice and submitted proof of commerce use in February 2024.—
Bryan West,
USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2025
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Raising prices Trade groups, academics and even the chief of the World Trade Organization warn that trade wars spurred by Trump's tariffs could slow global commerce and raise prices for consumers.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
27 Jan. 2025
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The greater mystery now is how much — or how little — the 49ers can fetch in return for Samuel, who didn’t generate enough of a market in 2022 or again last March to garner a trade.—
Cam Inman,
The Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Los Angeles Lakers rescinded their trade deadline deal for big man Mark Williams on Saturday night in a surprising turn of events.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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And of the many unlicensed home care aides who work in gray market, many are immigrants, including many who are undocumented.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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There are also active gray markets on Chinese apps and e-commerce platforms in Southeast Asia, where popular and rare dolls sell at several times their original prices.—
Lionel Lim,
Fortune Asia,
20 Dec. 2024
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Team officials backed away from including Yeti as a finalist after being unable to work out a co-existence agreement with Yeti Coolers to use the name in branding and merchandising.—
John Coon,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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Spring semester students will also have the opportunity to take courses in marketing, brand partnerships, and merchandising, which will give students hands-on, real world experience with the musical while receiving course credit.—
Rebecca Angel Baer,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2025
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Wines and spirits recorded an 8 percent decline, but other sectors saw improvements, with watches and jewelry up 3 percent and selective retailing rising 7 percent during the key holiday period.—
Joelle Diderich,
WWD,
28 Jan. 2025
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Manufacturers set markups based on production costs and related expenses, such as marketing and retailing.—
Benjamin Voyer,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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