Fair Trade?

Question

How Can Fair Trade be More Widely Implementd and what can be done to encourage conglomerate companies specially Supermarkets to stock fair trade produce?

For example is their a recent Case Study that shows how the sale of fair trade produce has helped people in the developig world on a macro (large) and micro (small) scale?

Answer 1

Fair trade is for the mmost part a good deal for all. The fact is that some places are very dependent on one main sorce of income and opening trade without first diversafying those areas will devistate many people.

Progress is being made all the time. Some people have been hurt severly by fair trade for a while but most of the time it is only for a few years. Even tht should be avoided if possible.

Answer 2

I think that fair trade is patronizing, surely all trade should be equal. All developing countries want is the same as everyone else, to be treated fairly when it comes to the buying and selling of products. Developing countries and Weston nations should have as much chance as anyone to come to a comprise on the price of their goods.

If developing countries where to close their doors to all things that 'Weston Society' wants then surely the west would have to increase their price on how they will buy these items.

I think that supermarkets should sell fair trade goods, but inform and encourage customers to learn, that developing countries want equal trade on a large scale, so that they too can increase their own economies.

Answer 3

It really should be called the "Unfair Trade Agreement" because most of the countries we deal with actually get WAY more than their fair share from the USA in return for non-tariff and untaxed exports going to the USA...

Let's take France for example, they take US manufactured cars apart piece-by-piece and then reassemble them at the port country. England however requires that all the lights be switched around and different colored lights replace the existing lights on our cars, not to mention an extra "loading" tax that they pass on to Americans importing their cars into their country, and finally they require "Emissions Standards" testing which most US cars fail -- even though a LOT of crappy old British cars are active on the streets of "Great" Britain belching out smog all over the place -- the whole place is one big giant race track. The taxes they levy are especially designed for their military visitors from America -- CHA-CHING !!! Or how about Japan, where they have not only "special loading" charges on insurance policies through AIG to help foster more money coming from our troops overseas to a special Japanese Compulsory Insurance (JCI) only for certain prefectures -- especially ones our troops live in, which costs about $1000 per year ( or more in most cases ). Kinda slows our automakers down which in turn affects US jobs...

NAFTA works great...for other countries...Get the picture ?