free trade

policy in which countries' governments do not restrict imports from, or exports to, other countries
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free trade

Summary

free trade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (931 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • free trade is a type of public policy[2].
  • free trade is a type of commercial policy[3].
  • free trade's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Free trade[4].
  • free trade's facet of is recorded as liberal international order[5].
  • free trade's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[6].
  • free trade's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • free trade's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • free trade's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • free trade's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • free trade's different from is recorded as free market[11].
  • free trade's different from is recorded as trade-free[12].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include public policy[2] and commercial policy[3].

Why It Matters

free trade ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (931 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . foreignpolicy.com. foreignpolicy.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of liberal international order
    Subclass of
    Topic's main category Category:Free trade
    Described by source The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +2
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2822, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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