fair-trading

The retailer of soaps, creams and makeup has promoted fair-trading practices and products that were not tested on animals.

However, the pledge by Bezos came against the backdrop of mass protests against Amazon, organised by the country’s powerful retail lobby in 300 cities across India, and after news that the company was being investigated by India’s fair-trading watchdog for violating India’s strict laws around foreign business practices.

In legal battle between fair-trading General Electric Co. and Columbia, S.C. discount house, state supreme court gutted fair-trade law by striking down "non-signer clause," which says that stores must abide by fixed-price agreements even if they do not sign such pacts.

John Smith, the BBC's finance director, draws a distinction between the gripes of commercial competitors that feel the BBC has not adhered to fair-trading rules and those--like BSkyB and Disney--that simply object to the presence of a publicly funded competitor in their markets.

The trade of the Co. was principally with America, which was supplied with machine-made "works" from here until the Waltham, Elgin, and other firms over there beat them out of the market, a not very difficult operation, considering that our fair-trading cousins impose a 25 per cent. duty on all such goods sent there by the free-traders of this country.