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a. Does fair trade benefit producing nations? Why or why not?

b. What are the merits of the argument that the World Trade Organization interferes with governmental sovereignty?

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In essence fair trade does not benefit producing nations, largely due to the fact that fair trade seems to place a form of limitation on the amount of goods and services that producing nations can provide to other less producing nations, or less-developed nations. This is due to the fact that fair trade seeks to level the playing field so to speak between producing nations, which are usually the more developed nations around the world, and those nations that are ...

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