trade agreement
noun
1
: an international agreement on conditions of trade in goods and services
2
: an agreement resulting from collective bargaining
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Existing agricultural trade agreements do not prevent the use of export restrictions as coercive tools.
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Zach Helder, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
During the later decades of the last century, economic free-fall and repression crippled much of the region, some of it instigated by the C.I.A., with trade agreements like NAFTA decimating many small, rural businesses, then globalization wreaking further havoc.
—Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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Zach Helder, Foreign Affairs, 22 Mar. 2024
During the later decades of the last century, economic free-fall and repression crippled much of the region, some of it instigated by the C.I.A., with trade agreements like NAFTA decimating many small, rural businesses, then globalization wreaking further havoc.
—Michael Kimmelman Clement Pascal, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Trade agreement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20agreement. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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