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Make Trade Fair was a campaign organized byOxfam International to promotetrade justice andfair trade among governments, institutions, and multinational corporations. As of 2022, the website is defunct. It first appears to have gone offline in early 2004.

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.^[1]
• Tariffs, where nations enforce high taxes on imported goods, restricting the sales of products from other nations.^[2]
• Unbalancedlabour rights for women, who often perceive that they earn lower wages than their male counterparts.^[3]
• Stringentpatent issues, that prevent the prices of medication, software, and textbooks (e.g.Gene patents,Chemical patents, andSoftware patents) from being lowered. Thus, such essential goods are often inaccessible to developing nations.^[4]

In 2002 and 2004, special benefit concerts were held inLondon to promote the Make Trade Fair campaign. Proceeds from the shows went to aid Oxfam's promotional campaigns. Produced byEmily Eavis, Marianne Troup, andLily Sobhani, performers from the 2002 "Fairplay" gig includeChris Martin andJonny Buckland fromColdplay,Noel Gallagher, andMs. Dynamite, while the 2004 event included Michael Stipe,Razorlight, andThe Thrills.^[5]

In 2008, the Make Trade Fair support CDThe Cake Sale was produced. The 9 songs were performed byLisa Hannigan,Nina Persson,Gary Lightbody,Gemma Hayes,Glen Hansard,Josh Ritter,Conor Deasy andNeil Hannon, and written by Deasy, Hansard,Emm Gryner,Paul Noonan,Ollie Cole,Damien Rice and others.^[6]

The Make Trade Fair campaign was active at theWTO Ministerial Conference of 2005, held inHong Kong. Various demonstrations and activities were held, including the handover of some 17.8 million signatures on the Big Noise petition toWTO Director GeneralPascal Lamy.^[7]

• Make Trade Fair (official site)
• Oxfam International
• Oxfam America
• Trade Justice Movement

• Fair trade
• Oxfam

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