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image Make Trade Fair is a campaign organized by Oxfam International to promote trade justice and fair trade among governments, institutions, and multinational corporations.

The campaign has focused on the elimination of several trade practices:
Dumping, which occurs when highly subsidized, surplus commodities from developed countries such as rice, cotton, corn, and sugar are sold at low prices and farmers from poor countries have difficulty competing. It is believed that this creates an uneven playing field where farmers in developing countries are unable to compete in the market with cheaper foreign produce and crops.

Tariffs, where nations enforce high taxes on imported goods, restricting the sales of products from other nations.

Unbalanced labour rights for women, who often earn lower wages than their male counterparts.

Stringent patent issues, that drive up the price of medication, software, and textbooks (e.g. Gene patents, Chemical patents, and Software patents). Thus, such essential goods are often inaccessible to developing nations.



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