

As a party skill, if your character has 10 ranks in Trade, you can have a maximum effective skill level of 14, worth a 70% reduction in the trade penalty.

Ranks in this skill reduce the difference in price between what you can purchase goods for and what you can sell goods for by 5% per rank. Trade is a skill available to players and NPCs. The help window that pops up the first time you initiate a trade.
