The phrase "trade impediments" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to barriers or obstacles that hinder or limit international trade between countries. Example: The government is working to reduce tariffs and other trade impediments in order to promote increased trade with neighboring countries.
There are perhaps 500 separate trade impediments, ranging from regulatory fine print to outright protectionism, such as Quebec's ban on margarine coloured to look like butter.
Their objections tend to be fourfold.Any price high enough to make much difference may fall foul of EU rules requiring trade impediments to be proportionate to the benefit achieved.
Fifteen years later, complaining of trade impediments, France, Russia, and the United States, all of which had growing business interests in the Far East, joined the British in a second Opium War.
Considers why countries and regions trade, and what goods they trade; impediments to trade, and why some countries deliberately erect policy to impede; and implications of openness for growth.
Another impediment is mobility.
The government would focus on governance and regulatory impediments, trade facilitation, infrastructure, water, private sector development, agri-food, fisheries and services, and empowering women to engage in economic activities.
Speaking to his union executive, he admitted the union-party relationship was strained – fuelled by the failures and disappointments of Labour in office, not least its refusal to address the legal impediments trade unions have to work under in Britain.
Trade openness softens impediments to trade that ultimately facilitate the import of materials and machinery as well as export to foreign markets.
But the Trump administration's belligerence suggests that trade tariffs and impediments to financial flows might be inevitable anyway, whatever Mexico's approach to negotiation.
Any attempt by the US to decouple itself by imposing trade tariffs and impediments to financial flows would thus be likely to have a dramatic impact on the Mexican economy.
But transaction costs are an impediment to trading, and such impediments thereby can limit savings.
