cross-channel

That travels across a channel of water; relating to somewhere on the opposite side of the channel

The intelligent ship-owner will rejoice to find, that in the partition of trade, which is the inevitable consequence of a state of peace, England still retains the lion's share; whilst for a fine weather and cross channel trade, our neighbours (to use a mariner's phrase) can put to sea in a hencoop, the superiority of our ships and crews secures a preference for British bottoms where dangers are to be run and risks surmounted.

the Gauls, who carried on the cross-channel trade between Gaul and Britain, were the inhabitants of the northern coast.

That travels across a channel of water; relating to somewhere on the opposite side of the channel

Effect on the Revenue by the alteration of the Cross Channel Trade: The Acts of last Session of Parliament in regard to the removal of foreign goods between Great Britain and Ireland...

the complete freedom given to general commercial intercourse, by which the cross-channel trade was made, by 6th Geo. 4th c. 107, a coasting-trade; and the intercourse with Ireland was left as unrestricted as that between London and Newcastle.

Alternative spelling of cross-channel.