Definition of "commercial treaty" []

• A treaty governing commerce between two or more nations (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Still, a commercial treaty with France, on free-trade lines, was negotiated between Louis Napoleon and Mr Cobden; and Mr Gladstone carried it through parliament in the face of strong opposition."
• "Bernstorff, Minister of Foreign Affairs, nor the commercial treaty with France in 1862 pacify the Liberals."
• "The news-writers bring together this circumstance with the departure of the French ambassador from London, and the English ambassador from Paris, the manoeuvring of the French fleet just off the channel, the collecting some English vessels of war in the channel, the failure of a commercial treaty between the two countries, and a severe Arret here against English manufacturers, as foreboding war."