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Encyclopedia > Fair trade (disambiguation)

Fair trade has a variety of meanings:

  • Fairtrade labelling or Fairtrade certification is a movement to allow consumers to identify goods (especially commodities such as coffee) that meet certain agreed standards of fairness.

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Fair trade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1624 words)
Although critics of so-called fairer trading practices charge that proposals for reform simply amount to protectionism, campaigners maintain that it is rich countries such as the United States and the European Union which operate expansive programmes that subsidise their domestic producers.
Advocates of fair trade argue that growing inequity and serious gaps in social justice, and the global export of terrorism, are symptoms of an economic system that permits harms to be exported to other countries, while importing their goods.
Fair trade is also to be distinguished from safe trade which is more narrowly focused on preservation of biodiversity, biosafety, biosecurity and preventing serious global climate change.
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