New Product Research

TransFair USA enables sustainable development and community empowerment by cultivating a more equitable global trade model that benefits farmers, workers, consumers, industry and the earth. We achieve our mission by certifying and promoting Fair Trade products.  We seek to empower and enrich the lives of family farmers and workers around the world. Ours is a market-based approach to ending poverty, an alternative to dependency on aid. We believe farmers should get a fair price for their harvest, and workers deserve safe working conditions, a decent living wage and the right to organize. Through direct, equitable trade, farming and working families are able to eat better, keep their kids in school, improve health and housing, and invest in the future. Strong families, vibrant local economies, support for the natural environment, sustainable community development, and hope for the future - these are the results we seek through Fair Trade.  Up until this point, we have only worked with agricultural supply chains in order to bring Fair Trade products to market and to deliver impact to farmers and workers.  

We are very much interested and compelled to extend our certification to non-agricultural products.  Our vision at TransFair USA includes delivering a Fair Trade model to any population that is disadvantaged as a result of supply chain inequities and disadvantageous terms of trade.  We are thrilled and humbled that non-agricultural industries have recognized the success of Fair Trade in agriculture and have approached TransFair USA to explore if the rigor of Fair Trade Certification can be applied to their respective industry.

Learn more about our study of Fair Trade in relation to the garments industry here.
Learn more about our study of Fair Trade in relation to the jewelry industry here.