An agreement to limit trade bans might make exporters think twice before disrupting world markets.
制定一项限制贸易禁令的协议也有可能会使得那些出口商在采取扰乱世界市场的行动前进行三思。
They could afford higher prices. What they could not afford, though, was the spate of trade bans that grain exporters large and small imposed to keep food prices from rising at home.
它们能够承受更高的粮食价格,却无法承受大大小小的粮食出口国为防止国内市场粮食价格上涨而颁布的多项贸易禁令。
Big exporters began lifting the trade bans they had imposed to keep local prices from rising, so more food became available to world markets.
大型的出口商开始提高他们之前已经实施的贸易门槛,目的是保护本国价格不会上涨,这样世界市场上就会有更多的粮食。
What they could not afford, though, was the spate of trade bans that grain exporters large and small imposed to keep food prices from rising at home.
它们能够承受更高的粮食价格,却无法承受大大小小的粮食出口国为防止国内市场粮食价格上涨而颁布的多项贸易禁令。