How to Use free trade in a Sentence

free trade

noun
  • Perhaps there’s an echo of the debate over free trade.
    — Mark Niquette, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps there's an echo of the debate over free trade.
    — Mark Niquette, Arkansas Online, 15 Dec. 2025
  • And that, of course, included free trade.
    — Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The two sides signed a free trade agreement in 2020.
    — Aniruddha Ghosal, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • On the other hand, free trade tends to make the nation better off.
    — Iain Murray, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025
  • No case for a free trade agreement can be made with statistics like these.
    — Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Tariffs have been falling for decades due to free trade agreements.
    — Victoria Cavaliere, CNN, 9 June 2018
  • Reagan was a staunch free trade advocate.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
  • Both assume that the country cannot compete in a world of open markets and free trade.
    — Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • This argument is based on the potential virtues of free trade.
    — WSJ, 19 June 2020
  • Of course, most modern games tokenize all assets for free trade from the get-go.
    — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • He was known to be an extreme supply-sider, in favor of tax cuts but also free trade.
    — Jen Kirby, Vox, 12 June 2018
  • For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • At the same time, public opinion had moved against free trade on both sides of the Atlantic.
    — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The two countries, along with Canada, have shared free trade agreements for more than three decades.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Most Americans think of the EU as a free trade area with frills.
    — Radek Sikorski, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Hainan wants to be the center of travel retail and free trade in China.
    — Kevin Rozario, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Rather, the battle was over protectionism against free trade.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • The new rules aim to promote barrier-free trade within states and across the country.
    — Atul Prakash, Bloomberg.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Some had hoped that free trade voices inside the White House would prevail.
    — Ben Popken, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • When neither great power embraces free trade, the rest of the world will simply go elsewhere.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Defend workers and union rights, and hammer away at China and free trade deals.
    — Eric Bradner, CNN, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Speaking Friday night, Trudeau praised the free trade deal as a success.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2018
  • If India’s economic unity broke, so would the largest free trade area in the world.
    — Raghvendra Singh, Quartz India, 9 Aug. 2019
  • What Americans care about now is not free trade per se, but what tariffs will do to their bottom line.
    — Karlyn Bowman, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • So the eight countries could reroute trade within the EU’s free trade bloc to avoid those tariffs.
    — Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Both sides have spent this year trying to agree on a free trade deal that will allow the movement of goods to and from Britain.
    — NBC News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But support for free trade has been eroding for a while in the European Union.
    — Pieter Cleppe, National Review, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Trump’s opposition to free trade is changing the way the public thinks about the issue.
    — Benjamin Toff, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • Indonesia does not have a free trade agreement with the United States.
    — Trevor Hunnicutt, Fortune, 12 Nov. 2023

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