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 ...

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 ...

In Costa Rica, for example, most small farms, including those selling Fair Trade coffee, employ migrant laborers for harvesting, particularly from Nicaragua and Panama. Rice believes that because the ...

From the founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, a critical account of the past, present and future of conscious capitalism--the change it has wrought in the world and the potential it still has to ...

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 US is going to have a “fair deal” with China and that “everything’s active” on trade negotiations. “Every country wants to partake, even countries that have ripped us off for many ...

Nonetheless, fashion designers are jumping on the fair trade bandwagon. This week in London, People Tree, a fair trade fashion company which works with 70 fair trade groups in 20 developing countries, ...

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.

AKRON, Pa. — Ten Thousand Villages, a pioneer retailer in the fair-trade movement, announced Thursday it will close 13 company-owned stores, including its location in Intercourse, Lancaster County.

The US is going to have a “fair deal” with China and that “everything’s active” on trade negotiations. “Every country wants to partake, even countries that have ripped us off for many ...