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Criteria for Fair Trade vary somewhat, depending on the group and the products
on which the groups focus (primarily agricultural products versus handcrafted
items), but Fair Trade organizations generally hold six principles in common:
1) Ensuring that producers receive a fair price for their products, one that
covers all costs of production, including a fair wage. Fair wages are determined through conversation and reflect the local costs of
living.
2) Guaranteeing fair labor conditions: safe working environments, gender equality in pay, elimination of slave and
forced child labor (or any child labor which harms children).
3) Transparent, accountable and democratic organizations and practices,
including increasing producers’ independence through training and resources that develop the capacity of
workers to manage their own enterprises.
4) Encouraging investment of some portion of producer profits in local community
development: education, health resources, safe water supply, preservation of local habitats,
etc.
5) Direct trade between producers and consumers, with as few middlemen as
possible, in order to return a reasonable proportion of the sales price to
producers and create reasonable consumer prices despite the potentially higher
costs of Fair Trade principles.
6) Encouraging practices that promote environmental sustainability. This principle is most fully embodied by producers engaged in
agriculturally-based Fair Trade.
