Article: No Nestle for me.(Letter to the editor)
New Internationalist;  May 1, 2006 ;     200 words ......to UNICEF figures). The reputation of Nestle is reprehensible and marketing 'fair trade' goods is a cynical exercise in moneymaking. Offering 'fair trade' goods does not make Nestle an ethical company. Al Couch Adelaide, Australia The views expressed...

Article: Importers, retailers meet rising fair trade demand: paying more to promote social responsibility, sustainability.
San Fernando Valley Business Journal;  December 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Westlake Village, have offered fair trade goods to meet a rising demand for such products...imports coffee, began to provide fair trade goods because of market demand. Vournas Coffee...consumers bristled upon learning that fair trade goods are more expensive than their counterparts...

Article: Exchange of Property
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      47 words ...EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY A transaction wherein parties trade goods, or commodities, for other goods, in contrast with a sale or trading of goods for money. An exchange of property is a type of barter...

Article: Fair trade movement gathers strength: the fair trade movement, which seeks to provide actual producers and growers with a better slice of the returns from their labour, is expanding rapidly and Africa appears poised to benefit from this ethical stance. Neil Ford reports.
African Business;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......increase their profit margins on fair trade goods. It is only when fair trade products...sales on the rise Global sales of fair trade goods are certainly increasing. According...figures from FLO, worldwide sales of fair trade goods increased by more than a third in 2005...

Article: Cree
Dictionary of American History;      562 words ......holding the prime locations around Hudson Bay Company posts. The trade goods they received were paid for with furs that came from other...the process, protect the Crees from these same people. Using trade goods to arm a buffer tribe between themselves and their enemies...

Article: Fur Trade and Trapping
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ......tribes by supplying them with European trade goods and guns for hunting and defense in...the major thoroughfare for furs and trade goods coming into or out of the Great Lakes...the Iroquois's desire for foreign-made trade goods increasing, success against the Hurons...

Article: Church hosts gift day.
Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England);  July 25, 2008 ;     49 words ......tomorrow and all are invited to come along to take part. The event is running alongside a coffee morning between 10am and 2pm with light lunches from 11.30am. There will be stall selling home made cakes along with books, fair trade goods and a raffle.

Article: potlatch
A Dictionary of World History;      88 words ......changes this brought to the local economy, caused a huge escalation in the scale of potlatches. Large quantities of European trade goods such as blankets were not only given away but were also publicly destroyed to force a rival to equal the gesture.

Article: SHOPPERS URGED TO BACK FAIR TRADE FORTNIGHT.
Melton Times & Citizen (Melton Mowbray, England);  February 27, 2007 ;     387 words ......windows - if they stock or serve Fair Trade goods. Mrs Gowans, of The Fair Trading Post...the first supermarkets to stock Fair Trade goods and shoppers at the store can now carry their Fair Trade goods in a Fair Trade bag. The chain has...

Article: Barter
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      73 words ...BARTER The exchange of goods or services without the use of money as currency. Barter is a contract wherein parties trade goods or commodities for other goods, as opposed to sale or exchange of goods for money. Barter is not applicable to contracts...

Article: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of a Slave Trader.
African Business;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the small Breton port of Vannes in northern France carrying trade goods such as cloth, brandy and cowry shells to exchange in West...set up on the beach which would serve to store the ship's trade goods. Other responsibilities included replenishing the ship's water...

Article: Peter Minuit
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      82 words ......West India Company to take charge of its holdings in America, Minuit purchased (1626) Manhattan from the Native Americans for trade goods costing 60 Dutch guilders and made New Amsterdam (later New York City) its center. Dismissed by the company in 1631, he later...

Article: EU, Switzerland agree deal on border cargo checks
AP Worldstream;  June 25, 2009 ;     122 words ......border holdups for trucks and trains. The agreement announced Thursday will see Switzerland adopt the same security measures on trade goods carried by rail and road as those of EU countries. As of July, Switzerland will also recognize EU-wide reliable traders certificates...

Article: exposition
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      108 words ......play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced. 2. a large public exhibition of art or trade goods. ∎  archaic the action of making public; exposure: the country squires dreaded the exposition of their rustic...