How to Use trade agreement in a Sentence

trade agreement

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  • Britain could drop out of the EU at year-end without a trade agreement.
    — William Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • With which countries does the US have a trade agreement under the new rule?
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Not to mention the fact that China has not lived up to the Phase One trade agreement signed in early 2020.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • In December 2020, that deal was struck as part of a wider trade agreement.
    — Bytania Rabesandratana, science.org, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In a separate statement, the U.K. said the two sides agreed to work toward a free-trade agreement.
    — Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune, 11 June 2021
  • The two sides signed a Phase One trade agreement in January 2020, which acted as a kind of truce in the trade war.
    — Bob Davis, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • 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 countries even entered into a free-trade agreement in 2015.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 28 July 2021
  • The Browns and Texans still must work out a trade agreement, the person said, but Watson appears to be set on his new team.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Should the Blazers and Pistons reach a trade agreement, the next trick will be selling Grant on sticking around long term.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Pemex has already been privatized and can make the most of the free-trade agreement with the United States and Canada.
    — Esade Business & Law School, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Ukraine has been pushing for years to further integrate with the E.U., and a free-trade agreement is already in place.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • Ukrainians also took to the streets for more than three months to protest Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a trade agreement with the European Union.
    — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • If a trade agreement isn’t struck by the end of the month, decades of free movement of goods, services, people and capital will come to an abrupt end.
    — William Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • On its face, the Phase 1 trade agreement has fallen short of the Trump administration's goals.
    — Keith Bradsher, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • One answer will be a new free-trade agreement with Australia, a large producer of coal.
    — New York Times, 4 May 2022
  • The pound could fall to $1.25 by the middle of next year if no trade agreement is agreed, according to analysts in a Bloomberg survey.
    — William Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • In Britain, some on the right openly pine for the return of Trump, who championed Brexit and dangled the prospect of a trans-Atlantic trade agreement.
    — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Just months earlier, Canberra and Beijing signed a free-trade agreement that had been in the works for nearly a decade.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • Its volumes plunged by half (49.9%) in the United Kingdom, and the European Union and its free-trade agreement nations, all down to a shortage of chips.
    — Michael Taylor, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • And a hard Brexit is approaching as Britain may be set to leave the European Union without a trade agreement.
    — Douglas A. Irwin, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
  • But in 2013, the Kremlin pressured our then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, to back out of a trade agreement with Europe.
    — Iryna Kyporenko, Time, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The start of operations at the mine this year was serendipitous: India and Australia signed a free-trade agreement in April.
    — Hari Kumar, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The Biden administration has urged China to live up to the terms of its trade agreement with President Trump.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2021
  • They’re also expected to resurrect talks for a free-trade agreement that were dropped in 2013.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 7 May 2021
  • The worry is that the EU also rips up its side of the trade agreement with the UK so effectively letting off an economic hand grenade.
    — Simon Constable, Forbes, 27 June 2022
  • The break will mean new customs inspections and paperwork — and even worse disruption if the two sides don’t have a new trade agreement in place.
    — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Will London or Brussels look to rewrite the terms of the trade agreement, as the accord explicitly allows?
    — Joe Mayes, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2021
  • The Tigray conflict led the U.S. to suspend some preferential trade agreements with Ethiopia, which the country is eager to have restored.
    — Matthew Lee, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The move marks the first use of an innovative labor rights provision in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which took effect last year.
    — Washington Post, 12 May 2021

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