Trade deals and fair trade

As a general term, ‘fair trade’ refers broadly to a concept and social movement encouraging the promotion of greater equity in trading relationships between the developed and developing worlds. This is based on the belief that conventional trading practices promote and perpetuate inequality between developed and developing countries.

Some individuals and organisations have criticised EU trade agreements with and policies toward developing countries as giving insufficient priority to the idea of Fair Trade and have called on UK trade deals post-Brexit to have a greater focus on Fair Trade.