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free trade

noun

trade between countries, free from governmental restrictions or duties.
international trade free from protective duties and subject only to such tariffs as are needed for revenue.
the system, principles, or maintenance of such trade.
Chiefly Scot. smuggling.

free trade

international trade that is free of such government interference as import quotas, export subsidies, protective tariffs, etc Compare protection
archaic.
illicit trade; smuggling

free trade

Unrestricted trade among nations without government tariffs or customs duties on imports.

First recorded in 1600–10

The agreement would have established free trade and political cooperation and put Ukraine on the road to EU membership.

On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic.

Most companies want expanded free-trade deals and tort reform.

The new guidelines do not impinge on the free-trade agreement or other agreements governing cultural and sports exchanges.

Last term, he got Congress to approve new free trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.

The doctrines of free trade are of very recent growth; the data on which its laws are founded are few, and also uncertain.

Cobdenites ascribe every known or imagined improvement in commerce, and the condition of the masses, to Free Trade.

England has sinned against India by forcing free trade upon her.

In the Liberal campaign on behalf of free trade the real leader, however, was Mr Asquith.

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