"discouraging trade" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to hinder or prevent the buying and selling of goods and services. Example: The new tariffs implemented by the government are discouraging trade between our country and its trading partners.
They also discourage trade between poor neighbours that might make a region richer.
Yet many Muslim nations discourage trade with import duties, as well as with their broader economic policies.
In the same year, the Scottish government published a procurement notice to Scottish councils that "strongly discourages trade and investment from illegal settlements".
The problem, as always, is whether Mr. Trump's goal is to accumulate leverage for use in a near-term negotiation or to discourage trade with China permanently as a matter of policy.
The national and provincial leaders called for the elimination of many of the nontariff barriers that currently discourage trade among the provinces, as well as closer coordination of provincial government policies.
In addition, the publicly owned banks could be instructed to use their influence with those they do business with to encourage, not discourage, trade union membership and enlightened equal opportunities policies.
The long journey and poor road conditions discourage trade and travel to the area, impairing access to healthcare and making it more expensive to transport crops to the main market in Kyenjojo.
But dealers' associations that have combated droits de suite, during five years of heated debate, say it will discourage trade, introduce burdensome new administrative obligations and merely enrich the agencies that collect and distribute artists' rights.
Technically a customs union, Mercosur was seen as a stepping stone for Latin American countries as they emerged from closed economic systems that effectively had discouraged trade.
