Domestic fair trade in the United States

2015 ◽  
pp. 174-190
Author(s):  
Sandy Brown ◽  
Christy Getz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Fair Trade

Consumer willingness to pay for domestic ‘fair trade’: Evidence from the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 235-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.H. Howard ◽  
P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global South ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Price Premiums ◽  
Potential Market ◽  
Domestic Fair Trade

AbstractThe success of fair trade labels for food products imported from the Global South has attracted interest from producers and activists in the Global North. Efforts are under way to develop domestic versions of fair trade in regions that include the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Fair trade, which is based on price premiums to support agricultural producers and workers in the Global South, has enjoyed tremendous sales growth in the past decade. Will consumers also pay a price premium to improve the conditions of those engaged in agriculture closer to home? To address this question, consumer willingness to pay for food embodying a living wage and safe working conditions for farmworkers was assessed with a national survey in the United States. The question format was a discrete choice (yes/no) response to one of four randomly selected price premiums, as applied to a hypothetical example of a pint of strawberries. Multilevel regression models indicated that respondents were willing to pay a median of 68% more for these criteria, with frequent organic consumers and those who consider the environment when making purchases most willing to pay higher amounts. Although the results should be interpreted with caution, given the well-known gap between expressed attitudes and actual behaviors, we conclude that there is a strong potential market opportunity for domestic fair trade.

Retaliation, Bargaining, and the Pursuit of “Free and Fair” Trade

1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishore Gawande ◽  
Wendy L. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Economic

That domestic political economic factors are important determinants of a nation's trade barriers has been empirically well established. However, the question of how effective strategically retaliatory trade barriers are in deterring foreign protectionism has received far less systematic empirical attention. In this article we use bilateral nontariff barrier (NTB) data between the United States and five developed partner countries (Japan, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom) to systematically examine the effectiveness of strategic retaliation. We employ a simultaneous Tobit model where the home and foreign NTB levels are determined endogenously in a bilateral game. The model provides estimates of deterrence coefficients, that is, the reduction in foreign trade barriers as a result of U.S. retaliation, which we use to characterize the nature of bilateral NTB games. Our hope is that the empirical results presented here, which have realistic though controversial implications, will inform U.S. trade policy.

scholarly journals Exploring linkages between Consumer Food Co-operatives and Domestic Fair Trade in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Duram ◽  
Amber Mead
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Association ◽  
Alternative Food Networks ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Big Box ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Domestic Fair Trade

AbstractConsumer Food Co-operatives (co-ops) have provided consumers an alternative to corporate supermarkets and big-box stores since the 1960s. Producers seeking broader marketing opportunities often turn to co-ops. This study examines how, within alternative food networks (AFNs), co-ops play a role in the emergence of the Domestic Fair Trade (DFT) movement in the USA. The DFT movement is based on the idea that family farms and small- to mid-sized farms in the global north are facing many of the same pressures as producers in the global south. The Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA) in the USA is the umbrella organization for a variety of stakeholders. The DFTA seeks to ‘support family-scale farming, to reinforce farmer-led initiatives such as farmer co-operatives, and to bring these groups together with mission-based traders, retailers and concerned consumers to contribute to the movement for sustainable agriculture in North America’1. This study assessed five co-ops (through interviews and document analysis) to determine their experiences with integrating DFT into their business practices. The research reveals that DFT concepts are important to co-operative decision-makers, but they are faced with challenges when it comes to actually integrating DFT into their business model. Insight into stakeholder perceptions and professional-level DFT activities, indicates that co-ops will be a key factor in determining whether the DFT movement will succeed in the USA.

scholarly journals Corporate Social Responsibility of a Fair Trade Company: A Cross-Country Study of Taiwanese and American Business Students’ Perceptions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Mei-Hua Chen ◽  
Bryan H. Chen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
School Curricula

This study investigated and compared Taiwanese and American business students’ perceptions of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of a fair trade (FT) company. A total of 402 and 470 questionnaires were collected in United States and Taiwan, respectively, of which 384 and 432 were usable, respectively. Nationality, gender, work experience, and religion were the four variables that affected the participants’ understanding of an FT company’s CSR in this study. The findings of this study have implications for business school curricula in Taiwan and the United States and provide useful ideas for enhancing social responsibility in business schools.

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