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Trade Barrier

Definition: Trade Barrier

Trade Barrier

Noun

1. Any regulation or policy that restricts international trade.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Trade Barrier

DomainDefinition

Business

The measures taken by the government of a country to limit or prevent the free flow of goods in and out of that country, e. g. customs duties, quotas and embargoes. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Trade Barrier

Synonym: import barrier (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Trade Barrier

English words defined with "trade barrier": embargotrade embargo, trade stoppage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "trade barrier": Import quotaSound scienceTrade Act of 1974. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Trade Barrier

DomainTitle

Books

  • EU Trade Barrier Regulation: Tackling Unfair Foreign Trade Practices (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Trade Barrier

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Turkey

Entry denial does not appear to target any particular company or nation, but rather appears to be a non-tariff trade barrier intended to protect local manufacturers. (references)

Norway

Imports from the U.S. have almost disappeared the last two years, and in year 2000, importers of wheat from U.S. were hit by an extra control tax of US$ 3 per ton due to Karnal Bunt problems in US. At the moment we see this as a trade barrier which has to be solved if US exporters are to be able to sell to the Norwegian market. (references)

Political Economy

CHINA

However, this system should be changing once China joins the WTO, as it has made commitments not to use its import licensing system as a trade barrier and to observe the principles of non-discrimination and national treatment. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

The GOAJ's inadequate IPR protections amount to a trade barrier. (references)

Spain

Neither of the following documents constitutes a trade barrier for U.S.-origin goods. (references)

Yemen

The Yemeni government also streamlined customs procedures somewhat, but businessmen still consider them to be the primary trade barrier in Yemen. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trade Barrier

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

trade barrier

26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trade Barrier

Language Translations for "trade barrier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

handelshindring, handelsbarriere. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

handelsbarrière. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaupaneste. (various references)

   

French

  

obstacle aux échanges, obstacle au commerce. (various references)

   

German

  

Handelshemmnis, Handelsbeschränkung. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kereskedelmi korlát. (various references)

   

Italian

  

barriera commerciale, barriera al libero scambio. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

貿"障壁 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぼうえきしょうへき. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adetray arrierbay

   

Spanish

  

obstáculo al comercio, barrera comercial, barrera al comercio. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Trade Barrier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-i-r-r-r-r-t"

-3 letters: aberrated, reradiate.

-4 letters: barrater, bartered, barterer, drearier, eradiate, rebaited, retarder, terraria.

-5 letters: abrader, aerated, airdate, arbiter, barrier, beadier, berated, berried, braider, debater, radiate, rarebit, readier, rebated, rebater, redbait, retired, retirer, retread, retried, tabered, tardier, tarried, tarrier, tearier, terrier, tiaraed, tireder, treader, tribade.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Trade Barrier


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 64 65      42 61 72 72 69 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100100 01100101 00100000 01000010 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0064 0065      0042 0061 0072 0072 0069 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5484677071236678484757184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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