Free trade

Free trade is a policy followed by some international markets in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries. Free trade is exemplified by the European Economic Area and the North American Free Trade Agreement, which have established open markets. Most nations are today members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trade agreements. However, most governments still impose some protectionist policies that are intended to support local employment, such as applying tariffs to imports or subsidies to exports. Governments may also restrict free trade to limit exports of natural resources. Other barriers that may hinder trade include import quotas, taxes, and non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory legislation.

Features of free trade

Free trade policies generally promote the following features:

Trade of goods without taxes (including tariffs) or other trade barriers (e.g., quotas on imports or subsidies for producers)

Trade in services without taxes or other trade barriers

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EU set to retaliate in case of auto tariffs

Detroit news 23 Feb 2019

Caterpillar, which announced earnings last month, had its biggest profit miss in a decade on worries over trade tensions ... Caterpillar “competes best in a free-trade environment” and is “hopeful that the government leaders can work toward a positive outcome for all parties,” spokeswoman Corrie Scott said in an emailed statement....

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Kagame’s AU reforms will struggle to survive without him

Mail Guardian South Africa 22 Feb 2019

He was the driving force behind the reforms process of the continental body and the initiative behind a historic agreement about free trade in Africa ... Kagame also helped push through the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCTFA) in March 2018 in Kigali....

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Ahead of Brexit, UK and Israel sign free trade deal

Cleveland Jewish News 20 Feb 2019

Israeli Minister of Economy Eli Cohen and United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox signed a free trade agreement between the two countries on Monday ahead of the upcoming U.K ... The United Kingdom has also signed free trade accords with United States, ......

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Nigeria: Free Trade Agreement Awaits Four More Ratifications to Become Effective

All Africa 20 Feb 2019

South Africa has deposited its instruments on the ratification of the African Free Continental Trade Area (AfCFTA), on the sidelines of the 32nd Ordinary Session of Assembly of the African Union, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia .......

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AU calls for harnessing sci-tech to transform Africa

Xinhua 19 Feb 2019

He also noted the positive progresses registered in the integration of Africa, mainly with the signing and ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and the protocol on free movement of persons, by a considerable number of AU member states....

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Nigeria’s shameful self-isolation on the AfCFTA

Business Day Online 18 Feb 2019

its refusal to sign the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) ... Put it this way, Nigeria helped Africa create a historic Continental Free Trade Area but won’t join it itself! ... “We have some people who attempt to be assassins of our progress to establish the Continental Free Trade Area”, he said, before adding....

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Govt Shelves Plans to Join Continental Free Trade Area

All Africa 18 Feb 2019

GOVERNMENT has shelved plans to fully join the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) so that it could find space to stabilise local industry which is struggling to produce enough quality goods to compete outside .......

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Domestic and Foreign Investors Must Collaborate to Fully Harness Nigeria’s Economic Potentials

This Day 17 Feb 2019

In the course of those missions I attended many development related fora, organized several inward and outward business development sessions and similarly undertook study tours of industrial establishments including free trade and special economic development zones in Africa, Asia, South and North America, Australia and Europe....

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Trump May Be About to Undermine Obama’s Africa Policy | Opinion

Newsweek 15 Feb 2019

Every year, more African nations are taking advantage of unilateral free-trade privileges under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) ... AGOA enables Africa to sell its merchandise duty-free to the US, even though American companies must still pay duties on American merchandise going to Africa....

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African Free Trade Agreement Nears Completion

The Washington Informer 14 Feb 2019

Four hundred years after the first Africans were kidnapped and brought to the United States and 135 years after the infamous Berlin Conference divided Africa into 55 separate countries, heads of state from the continent are on the verge of a historic free trade agreement....

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Investing in Africa: Review and trends for 2019

Business Day Online 14 Feb 2019

On a positive note, intra-African trade is set to increase interest in Africa. Looking to generate 22 African nations to support the initiative, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement aims to stimulate and facilitate intra-African trade, which should fuel investor confidence, particularly in the ever popular consumer goods sector....

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EU Parliament approves landmark free trade deal with Singapore

The Independent 13 Feb 2019

The European Parliament has approved a landmark free trade deal with Singapore which will gradually eliminate tariffs on goods and services over the next five years ... If Britain crashes ;out of the European Union without a withdrawal agreement in place on 29 March, the UK will not have access to the new free trade agreement with Singapore....

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African Union works towards peace and security

China.dot.org 13 Feb 2019

... Kagame, supporting Africa Agenda 2063 and the peace and security portfolio, and boosting intra-African trade and development in the coming period ... The agreement to establish an African Free Trade Area (CFTA) is a step in the right direction to promote intra-Africa development....