GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Exporters attending China’s biannual trade fair in Canton were emphatic about the need to look beyond selling to Americans. China has been highlighting its focus on ...

Britons over the past decade have become a nation of ethical shoppers. A packet of tea with the fair trade premium may cost 40p more than other brands, but many of us happily pay the extra in the ...

AFP via Getty Images The situation is dire for Chinese ... down from a record attendance of 253,000 at the last fair, according to the trade fair organizers. About 10% of the buyers were from ...

"(Products) may have pretty pictures of a farm on their packaging ... If prices drop below the cost of production, farms may go out of business. Keahey said fair trade is a third-way approach that ...

Paul Rice founded Fair Trade USA in a one-room warehouse in Oakland, California, in 1998. He’d just returned from the war-torn highlands of Nicaragua, where he’d spent 11 years working with ...

Imagine a reconstructed World Trade Organization, built to the president’s specifications and dedicated to “fair trade.” Could that happen? The odds are against it, but the answer is yes.

Visitors arrive at the 137th Canton Fair in Guangzhou in southern China's Guangdong province on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) Advertisement ...

Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” on China, and essentially all other U.S. trading partners, loomed heavily at the biannual trade fair, which has been held since 1957.

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