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
  • There is no such thing as a trade agreement that does not create new winners and losers.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • The factors that go into a trade deficit are much bigger than trade agreements.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 21 June 2018
  • Britain could drop out of the EU at year-end without a trade agreement.
    — William Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • Cowboys and Texans have a trade agreement in place, source said.
    — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Since then, the path toward reaching a trade agreement has been unclear.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • It was meant for a world in which much of global commerce wasn't covered by trade agreements.
    — Paul Wiseman, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • It was meant for a world in which much of global commerce wasn’t covered by trade agreements.
    — Paul Wiseman, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
  • It was meant for a world in which large swaths of global commerce were not covered by trade agreements.
    — Paul Wiseman and Ken Thomas, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • My concern with Warren’s changes to the process have to do with how trade agreements work.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • As the tariff threat eased and some progress was made on trade agreements, stocks have recovered sharply.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As the tariff threat eased and some progress was made on trade agreements, stocks have recovered sharply.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 29 June 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
  • With which countries does the US have a trade agreement under the new rule?
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • 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 trade agreement, which was agreed upon in June, has yet to be implemented.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • The White House has reached a trade agreement with Argentina.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 13 Nov. 2025
  • When trading in a car with a loan, the dealer typically pays off the rest of the car loan as part of the trade agreement.
    — Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The two nations reached a Phase One trade agreement in late 2019.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The Heat played under a hard cap last season due to a sign-and-trade agreement with Butler.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • In December 2020, that deal was struck as part of a wider trade agreement.
    — Bytania Rabesandratana, science.org, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The trade agreement was first proposed in 2012 as a way to create one of the world's largest free-trade zones.
    — Jill Disis and Laura He, CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The countries even entered into a free-trade agreement in 2015.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • 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

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