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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New think tanks and magazines explored the boundaries of what an America First conservatism might be: more combative about progressive values, more isolationist in foreign policy, more nationalist on immigration, and more open to government intervention to stem free trade. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 Trump's administration would roll back free trade agreements, and instead negotiate bilateral deals focused on U.S. agricultural and manufacturing interests. —

Axios, 14 Oct. 2024 Prosperity in a depopulating world will also depend on open economies: free trade in goods, services, and finance to counter the constraints that declining populations otherwise engender. —

Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024 Indeed, the United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. —

Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for free trade