What is Fair Trade?

Fair Trade is a set of governing principles that makers/suppliers/employers promise to keep. These principles are often things that are taken for granted and overlooked in the United States of America.

Principles like:

• being paid a living wage

• not using child labor

• providing safe working conditions

• offering health care

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We say NO to sweatshops, 14-hour days, pennies a day, health hazards and forced labor.

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We say YES to giving artisans fair wages for their skills, working conditions so ethical they're brag-worthy, and empowering employees to feel good and do good in the world around them.

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We know that this means we will pay higher prices. We accept that whenever possible because we value the lives of every human more than we value money.