Fair Trade can be confusing, misunderstood, and even mistaken for a marketing ploy. From its origins in the 1950's to its significance today with the rise of the conscious consumer, I ask industry ...

Fair trade advocates focus on the wages and working conditions of labor in developing markets. For example, a fair trade activist will fight to increase the wage rates of workers and improve their ...

Outside of these bigger organizational bodies, individual companies also offer their own versions of fair trade. For example, Starbucks’s CAFE Practices, developed with Conservation ...

Obviously no one wants to see U.K. supermarkets profiteering from Fair Trade sales ("Consumers Are Paying A Premium to Embrace 'Fair Trade' Campaign," page one, June 8). However we believe the ...

As I have met with fair trade factories and farms internationally, I have often heard, “When the certification auditors come, two-thirds of the workforce runs out the back door." This cheekily ...

Each of our trade partners cheats us out of jobs and factories in different ways. For example, Japan uses a dizzying array of nontariff barriers to keep American automobiles and other high-value ...

The European Union’s chief trade negotiator warned China on Monday during his trip to the nation that the bloc will be more forceful in upholding fair competition and defending its interests.