The phrase "a foreign merchant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a merchant or trader who is from a different country or nationality than the one being discussed.
Example: "The local market was bustling with activity, and I noticed a foreign merchant selling exotic spices from his homeland."
Alternatives: "an international trader" or "a non-native seller".
Trade was mainly carried on in the interests of a privileged foreign merchant class, not those of the community at large.
In March 1839 Lin ordered all foreign merchants to hand over their stocks and to undertake to bring no more.
España was then refitted and fought on the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War, operating as part of a naval task force along with Almirante Cervera and Velasco, which captured or drove back a number of Republican and foreign merchant ships.
There is a courtier, a groom, a falconer, an entertainer, a dancing lady, a foreign wine merchant and various animals.
The first full traverse of the route by foreign merchant ships occurred in 2009.
While the principle of freedom of the seas normally forbids visit and search of foreign merchant vessels on the high seas in time of peace, the practice has occasionally been extended to "pacific blockades" instituted as measures of reprisal, usually by a large state against a small one.
504, 67 L.Ed. 894 (1923), holding that our prohibition laws applied to foreign merchant vessels as well as domestic within the territorial waters of the United States, and that therefore the carrying of intoxicating liquors by foreign passenger ships violated those laws.
He was the first foreign merchant to export wool goods from Bradford.
The Kolbiagi were a group of foreign merchant-venturers and mercenaries mentioned in a number of Old Russian sources.
By the 1870s the presence of a number of foreign merchants, many invested in the economically important cotton industry, had led to conflict with the city's inhabitants.
