the guns, ammunition, tobacco, blankets, etc. that the fur traders carried in stock to exchange for furs.
See also: trading goods
- 1921  This post was so remote that seven years would elapse between the time trade goods left London for Fort Selkirk and the time the furs obtained in exchange arrived.
- 1957  In time, the commodities used in the purchase of furs, or in any other dealings with the natives, came to be known as "trade goods."