free trade

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌfɹi ˈtreɪd/, /ˈfɹi ˈtreɪd/

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Noun

free trade (uncountable)

1. International trade without government interference, especially from tariffs or duties on imports.
   • 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

     Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. […] The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Derived terms

• free trade area
• free trader

Translations

trade free from government interference

• Arabic: تِجَارَة حُرَّة f (tijāra ḥurra)
• Catalan: lliure comerç m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由貿易 / 自由贸易 (zh) (zìyóu màoyì), 自貿 / 自贸 (zh) (zìmào) (short form)

• Danish: frihandel c
• Dutch: vrijhandel (nl) m
• Finnish: vapaakauppa (fi)
• French: libre-échange (fr) m
• Georgian: თავისუფალი ვაჭრობა (tavisupali vač̣roba)
• German: Freihandel (de) m, freier Handel m, Handelsfreiheit (de) f
• Hungarian: szabadkereskedelem (hu)
• Italian: libero scambio m
• Japanese: 自由貿易 (ja) (じゆうぼうえき, jiyū-bōeki)
• Korean: 자유 무역(自由貿易) (jayu muyeok)
• Malay: perdagangan bebas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frihandel m

  Nynorsk: frihandel m

• Polish: wolny handel m
• Portuguese: livre comércio m (Brazil), comércio livre m (Portugal)
• Russian: свобо́дная торго́вля f (svobódnaja torgóvlja), беспо́шлинная торго́вля f (bespóšlinnaja torgóvlja)
• Spanish: comercio libre m, libre comercio m
• Swedish: frihandel (sv) c
• Tagalog: malayang baliwasan
• Thai: การค้าเสรี (th) (gaan-káa-sěe-rii)
• Vietnamese: thương mại tự do
• Volapük: lelivated

See also

• foreign trade
• freedom of trade
• trade barrier
• trade war

Further reading

• free trade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia