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trade council

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[treyd koun-suhl] / ˈtreɪd ˌkaʊn səl /
Also trades council

noun

  1. a central council composed of local trade unions.


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China's international trade council has formally asked the United States to "carefully consider" rules that ban or restrict U.S. investments in China's tech sector, state television reported on Friday.

From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023

But within a few months, the trade council was dissolved, and Navarro found himself in a kind of White House purgatory.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2018

“We are really small,” Mr. Navarro said of the trade council.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2017

Lori Otto Punke, president of the Washington trade council, called it “a shame to let go of all those benefits.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2017

Since the Russian revolution it has come to be known as soviet government, "soviet" being the Russian word for trade council.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton