free goods

plural noun

imported goods that are not subject to duty.
goods having utilitarian value, as air and water, but available in such great quantities as to have no cost.

First recorded in 1770–80

"Neutral ships make neutral goods; free ships, free goods," ii.

The rule "free ships, free goods," rises as a postulate, although it was not universally recognised till 1856.

He insisted on the important principle that 'free ships make free goods,' and complained of its abandonment by the negotiators.

A Russian manifesto announced the coalition called the "armed neutrality," formed on the basis that free trade makes free goods.

It had not yet come to be the acknowledged law of nations that free ships make free goods.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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