NOUN
- trade that satisfies certain criteria on the supply chain of the goods involved, usually including fair payment for producers; often with other social and environmental considerations
- trade that is conducted legally
How To Use fair trade In A Sentence
- Rather than turning to a federal court, Apple wants to file its complaint with the International Trade Commission, a quasi-judicial federal agency that investigates alleged unfair trade practices. Apple Pushes to Open Kodak Patent Suit
- It is a fair trade, environmentally and economically just coffee that allows the coffee harvesters to be paid a living wage.
- It has all the necessary ingredients: the immortal soul, religious arguments, civil discrimination issues, and fair trade implications.
- Fair Trade, however, is limited to small producers on farms averaging 12 acres who belong to small cooperatives, which excludes many socially conscious coffee roasters and importers.
- Fair Trade products now include sugar, mescal and even soccer balls.
- The company had recently launched a Fair Trade line, getting its beans from one of those less-than-100% roasters.
- The Fair Trade Fiesta helps mark the start of the new phase in mainstreaming Fair Trade in New Zealand.
- In 1984, the act was amended to define failure to protect intellectual property as an unfair trade practice.
- V.F. contributing editor David Kamp and the saucy Marion Rosenfeld's The Food Snob's Dictionary (Broadway) enlightens denizens of Hooters-style breastaurants about the finer points of "forcemeat" whilst delighting those high-hat cuisinerds who can gas on about "fair trade" until the grass-fed, free-range cows come home. Hot Type
- It supports fair trade and union rights and helps me to sleep a little less guiltily at night. Times, Sunday Times
