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Trade War
trayd wor
/treɪd wɔːr/Listen
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tradewar
Dictionary meaning
Economic conflict where countries impose tariffs and trade barriers on each other in retaliation — the US-China trade war beginning in 2018 imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods; historically, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff worsened the Great Depression
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