FAIR TRADE USA

Providing business information in the field of fair trade; promoting public awareness of the need to alleviate poverty among farmers, farm workers, factory workers, and other disadvantaged producers by empowering them to invest in their workplaces and communities, to protect the environment, and to develop the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace; promoting public awareness of and interest in fair trade principles as a means to alleviate poverty among farmers, farm workers, factory workers, and other disadvantaged producers by empowering them to invest in their workplaces and communities, to protect the environment, and to develop the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace; promoting public awareness and understanding of fair trade certification as a market-based model of trade that promotes fair prices and credit terms, fair labor conditions, direct trade between producers and purchasers, democratic and transparent producer organizations, investment in community development, and environmentally sustainable production methods; business audit services, namely, conducting audits and corrective action programs in the nature of business consulting to evaluate and enforce compliance by others with fair trade standards; conducting business audits in the field of fair trade; business consulting and advisory services, namely, identifying producers' needs for organizational and market development; business consulting and advisory services, namely, business advice relating to improving product quality, producer management capacity, and producer access to credit and markets; business consulting and advisory services relating to capacity building, market development, and market linkage initiatives to facilitate the market for fair trade products; supply chain management and supply chain business administrative support services

Charitable fundraising services; financial services, namely, providing financial support to nonprofit and community organizations that engage in public awareness campaigns concerning fair trade; financial services, namely, providing grants to producer organizations; securing investments from foundations, companies, and development agencies in the nature of business finance procurement services to support producers' needs for organizational and market development

Vocational education in the fields of agriculture and business; training in the fields of marketing, product quality improvement, product quality control, risk management, credit, finance, contracting, and cooperative management; training in the field of fair trade practices, namely, fair labor conditions, workers' rights, democratic decision making in producer organizations, investments in social and business development projects, and use of environmentally sustainable farming methods

Testing, analysis and evaluation of the goods and services of others for the purpose of certification, namely, inspecting and verifying the products, trade practices, and business operations of others for purposes of fair trade certification