CATAN
Can the Merchant 2:1 rate be used to trade commodities away?
Replies are few or split, so this is the best-supported reading rather than a settled ruling.
- Drinkdrawers · Community · 2007-05-29
No. The Merchant's 2:1 rate applies only to the resource its hex produces. You can receive commodities at that rate, but you cannot trade commodities away through it.