How to Use trade agreement in a Sentence

trade agreement

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  • The next phase of the U.S.–Japan trade agreement should show the way.
    — Marc L. Busch, National Review, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Britain could drop out of the EU at year-end without a trade agreement.
    — William Shaw, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The two nations reached a Phase One trade agreement in late 2019.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Sep. 2020
  • With which countries does the US have a trade agreement under the new rule?
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The trade agreement was first proposed in 2012 as a way to create one of the world's largest free-trade zones.
    — Jill Disis and Laura He, CNN, 16 Nov. 2020
  • In the fall of 2013, Ukraine was slated to sign a trade agreement with the European Union.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2019
  • My concern with Warren’s changes to the process have to do with how trade agreements work.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In the sign-and-trade agreement, Russell will go to the Warriors on a four-year, $117 million deal.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
  • 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
  • Talks on a new trade agreement have made little progress.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 12 June 2020
  • 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 Heat played under a hard cap last season due to a sign-and-trade agreement with Butler.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Cowboys and Texans have a trade agreement in place, source said.
    — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
  • There is no such thing as a trade agreement that does not create new winners and losers.
    — Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The tariff-slashing deal was billed as the EU’s largest-ever trade agreement when struck in June.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Since then, the path toward reaching a trade agreement has been unclear.
    — New York Times, 29 July 2019
  • 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
  • The trade agreement, which was agreed upon in June, has yet to be implemented.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • President Trump said last month that talks for a phase 2 trade agreement with China were on the back burner.
    — Steve Saleen, WSJ, 31 July 2020
  • That’s aimed at meeting local component requirements of roughly 50% of a product in order to export to other Latin American countries without tariffs, based on Brazil’s trade agreements with them.
    — Linda Lew / Bloomberg, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
  • Tariffs could cost families $2,600 a year Trump has championed tariffs as a way to help working-class Americans by protecting workers from unfair trade practices and as a negotiating tactic to reach more favorable trade agreements.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 Sep. 2024

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