trade war

English

Noun

trade war (plural trade wars)

1. The practice of nations creating mutual tariffs or similar barriers to trade.
   • 2025 February 3, Léonie Chao-Fong, “Trump tariffs spark retaliation from Mexico, China and Canada”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But for weeks Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning has said Beijing believes there is no winner in a trade war.

Translations

practice of nations creating mutual tariffs

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: ဝါဏိဇ္ဇပဋိပက္ခ (my) (wanijja.pa.ti.pakhka.)
• Catalan: guerra comercial f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貿易戰 / 贸易战 (zh) (màoyìzhàn)

• Czech: obchodní válka f
• Esperanto: komerca milito
• Finnish: kauppasota (fi)
• French: guerre commerciale f
• Galician: guerra comercial f
• Georgian: სავაჭრო ომი (savač̣ro omi)
• German: Handelskrieg (de) m
• Greek: εμπορικός πόλεμος m (emporikós pólemos)
• Hebrew: מִלְחֶמֶת סַחַר f (milkhémet-sákhar)
• Japanese: 貿易戦争 (ぼうえきせんそう, bōeki sensō)
• Korean: 무역 전쟁 (muyeok jeonjaeng)
• Polish: wojna handlowa f
• Portuguese: guerra comercial f
• Russian: торго́вая война́ f (torgóvaja vojná)
• Serbo-Croatian: trgovinski rat m
• Slovak: obchodná vojna f
• Spanish: guerra comercial f, guerra mercantil m
• Swedish: handelskrig (sv) n
• Vietnamese: chiến tranh thương mại

See also

• free trade

Further reading

• trade war on Wikipedia.Wikipedia