OCA Gives Fair Trade USA’s New Policy Tentative Thumbs-Up
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Fair Trade USA’s proposed changes to its fair-trade policy for composite products meet with tentative approval from the Organic Consumers Association/Fair World Project, which previously argued the group’s standards weren’t stringent enough.
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