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- "Supreme Chancellor, delegates of the Senate, a tragedy has occurred, which started right here with the taxation of trade routes, and has now engulfed our entire planet in the oppression of the Trade Federation!"
- ―Senator Sheev Palpatine
In the last decades of the Galactic Republic, the Free Trade Zones were trading areas untaxed by the Republic. The Trade Federation exploited loopholes in the trade legislation to establish an economic monopoly over the zones.[2]
Around 32 BBY, the Galactic Senate passed Prop 31-814D, making the Free Trade zones eligible for taxation.[3] The Trade Federation retaliated by invading the remote planet of Naboo with its private droid force, secretly backed up and manipulated by the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious.[4]
Appearances[]
- Queen's Peril (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace (First mentioned) (Indirect mention only)
- Tarkin (and audiobook) (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
Star Wars: Card Trader Set: Base Series 1, Card: Lott Dod - Senator (First identified as Free Trade Zone)- Ultimate Star Wars
- Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy
- Rise of the Separatists
- Ultimate Star Wars, New Edition
- "Database" — Star Wars - Das offizielle Magazin 96
- Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
- Star Wars: Timelines
