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free trade

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free trade
n.
Trade between nations without protective customs tariffs.
free trader n.
free trade
n
1. (Economics) international trade that is free of such government interference as import quotas, export subsidies, protective tariffs, etc. Compare protection [3]
2. (Business / Commerce) Archaic illicit trade; smuggling
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Noun1.free tradefree trade - international trade free of government interference
trade - the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"
NAFTA, North American Free Trade Agreement - an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico; became effective in 1994 for ten years
Translations
free trade n → libero scambio
free trade n → libero scambio


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Perhaps she disapproved of free trade in generous sentiment.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
And in place of the numberless and feasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freed, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation.
Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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