0 used to describe a business that is not involved in buying or selling, or one that is not operating:
The high-street stores group is planning to raise £400 million through the sale of non-trading properties.
1 used to describe a time when no buying or selling takes place:
The fall for non-trading agencies was higher (5.3 median score) but higher for trading agencies (8.2 per cent).
However, there were marked differences between trading and non-trading agencies.
The overheads of industry are increased enormously by the high level of tax necessary to maintain the non-trading, non-productive part of the country's economy.
In the non-trading public sector—in education, in health, in housing, and in services like sewage disposal—it is seldom possible to find profit-earning investments.
The proposal for the non-trading sectors is far too weak in these respects.
It comes out in favour of a non-trading commission which would represent all interests in cereal marketing.
This is a non-trading organisation, but it is the umbrella which keeps all these interests together.
It will probably pay tax on the aggregate surplus of its trading and non-trading activities.
