Such dark protectionist thoughts are far from the minds of the benevolent organizers of the United Kingdom’s annual “Fairtrade Fortnight,” during which I just bought two bars of fair-trade chocolate and a jar of fair-trade chunky peanut butter. Their worthy aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their produce by excluding the inflated profits of the middlemen on whom they depend for getting their goods to distant markets.
当然，那些好心的英国年度“公平贸易双周”组织者们可没有这些阴暗的保护主义思想。笔者也在活动中购买了两条公平贸易巧克力以及一罐公平贸易花生酱。他们可敬的目标就是希望绕过那些将农产品销往远方赚取额外利润的中间人，向发展中国家农民支付更高的产品价格。类似可可、咖啡，茶叶和香蕉这样的公平贸易产品与欧洲本地产品并无竞争，因此也并不存在任何贸易保护主义动机。