How to Use trade agreement in a Sentence

trade agreement

noun
  • That trade agreement is up for a review this year.
    — CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The two countries are in talks to try to reach a trade agreement.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That trade agreement is slated for review.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • That trade agreement, which Trump signed in his first term, is up for a review this year.
    — Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2026
  • As the tariff threat eased and some progress was made on trade agreements, stocks have recovered sharply.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Keeping the trade agreement alive and fixing what does not work is not optional.
    — Diego Marroquin Bitar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Whitmer defended the trade agreement in her speech.
    — Isabella Volmert, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Massive increase in trade agreements.
    — CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • After trade agreements flourished in the 1990s, many of those jobs moved abroad.
    — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The White House has reached a trade agreement with Argentina.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That rate took effect in July after a nearly three-decade-old trade agreement expired.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
  • These tariffs will apply to countries that have no trade agreement with Mexico.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The president threatened, at the time, to withhold trade agreements unless the fighting stopped.
    — Chris Megerian, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The first trade agreement ended up going to the United Kingdom.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The deadline for a decision on a trade agreement between the three countries is set for July.
    — Robert Ferris, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The messaging was largely in favor of maintaining the trade agreement.
    — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Stock futures jumped Monday morning amid rising hopes for a trade agreement with China.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • And there were many, many statements and open letters and signatories on statements by writers and artists who were against the free-trade agreement.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • In the past, such deals were negotiated for in legislation or trade agreements.
    — Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Mulroney ingeniously framed the free-trade agreement as a modern nation-building project.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025
  • India, which faces a 50% tariff rate, is among the last major economies yet to sign a trade agreement with Washington.
    — Anup Roy, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The pairing indicates the president is eager to reach a trade agreement with India.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The same month, Canada and China reached a preliminary trade agreement.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The purchase led to a formal trade agreement, and the Soviets began buying billions of dollars’ worth of corn and other grains.
    — Stephen Mihm, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Do the tariffs go back up temporarily to 46 percent until there’s an official trade agreement?
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Lawmakers on the committee voted on Thursday to send the trade agreement for a full parliamentary vote.
    — Jorge Valero, Bloomberg, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Five years later, the latest round of negotiations failed to address any of these issues—or even reach a general trade agreement for that matter.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Small business owners definitely want clarity and certainty on how these trade agreements will land, and the effect of tariffs on their costs.
    — Rhett Buttle, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Trump mulls quitting the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
    — Samantha Stewart, Bloomberg, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Notably among the countries that have not signed trade agreements with the United States are Mexico and Canada.
    — Rohit Arora, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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