**Whilst many regulations cannot ensure total fairness in trade, they can promote _fairer_ trade** **Dumping** - Regulations on trade prevents [dumping](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dumping.asp): when a country or company exports a product at a price that is lower in the foreign importing market than the price in the exporter's domestic market. - This allows them to flood the market with product prices that are not equivalent to the [fair market value](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fairmarketvalue.asp). - Countries can protect their domestic producers from dumping by using regulations such as tariffs and quotas against imported goods. - Without this, trade at the fair market value is threatened and thus is fair trade in general. **Anti-discrimination Measures** - WTO law creates anti-discrimination measures, which make it illegal for countries to discriminate against each other in trade. - This means they cannot accept the same product from one country and refuse it from another without a satisfactory basis, preventing the unfair politicization of trade. **Labour Rights** - Countries can set certain requirements when trading with another. - They set labour clauses that list the minimum commitments for the protection of human rights at work in order to sign [free trade agreements](https://www.ilo.org/global/standards/information-resources-and-publications/free-trade-agreements-and-labour-rights/lang--en/index.htm). - A growing number of FTAs, particularly those signed by Canada, the United States and the European Union, contain social and labour provisions according to such regulations. - This incentivises countries to protect labour rights in order to continue trading with countries that require that of their trading partners. - This can ensure fair working conditions and promotes labour rights by protecting against exploitation such as wage slavery. **Safety** - Countries can also ban the trade of harmful/dangerous materials due to safety regulations in place. - One example of this is the ban of [asbestos](https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/news/2018/10/the-government-of-canada-takes-measures-to-ban-asbestos-and-asbestoscontaining-products.html) trade in Canada, which has been declared a human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer. - These regulations ensure trade is ethical.