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WHO GETS WHAT:
FREE TRADE VS FAIR TRADE

source: www.newint.org/
issue322/facts.htm

www.fairtrade.net/
sites/impact/facts.html

www.fsa.ulaval.ca/
personnel/vernag/EH/
F/cause/fair_trade.htm

A product’s final price is added to as it passes through the market to the consumer...

...‘Free’ trade concentrates this value in the hands of rich corporate merchants, processors and retailers in the North...

...Producers in the South are paid only a tiny part of the final price.

What makes a 250 gr. fair trade ‘arabica’ coffee price?

	*traditional trade €*	*fair trade €*
producer	0.19	0.58
intermediary	0.06	0
cooperative management	0	0.08
export costs	0.14	0.14
fair trade label right	0	0.05
import, roasting, distribution	1.41 - 2.61	1.45 - 2.5
total	1.8 - 3	2.3 - 3.35

Bananas price making

	%
producer	5
export costs	4
international transport	11
import licenses	9
profit	17
ripening process	5
taxes	5
distribution & retail	34

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