Definition of A Fair Trader / Fair Traders: Contrasted with free trader, a fair trader is a holder of the the point of view that one's country's government must prevent foreign companies from having artificial advantages over domestic ones.

The term dates at least as far back as 1886 Britain, where tariffs were recommended by one point of view expressed in a Royal Commission report "not to countervail any natural and legitimate advantage which foreign manufacturers may possess, but simply to prevent our own industries being placed at an artificial disadvantage by the interference of either home or foreign legislation...." (Carr and Taplin, p 122) (Econterms)

Terms related to A Fair Trader / Fair Traders:

• free trader