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Would you buy a Fair Trade iPhone or Android smartphone? Would you buy a Fair Trade Dell or HP PC if there were such choices? And how much extra would you be willing to pay?

And more importantly, what would it take for you to be assured that the Fair Trade premium was making a difference in the lives of electronics workers?

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Nearly 99.5% of Belgian chocolate sold in supermarkets contains cocoa harvested by child slaves, says Oxfam amid calls on Belgian producers to use Lefevre cocoa from fair trade.

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Wal-Mart recently announced the launch of Neu Direction, a line of Fair-Trade Certified wines from Argentina. Fair Trade Certification™ is administered by TransFair USA and “guarantees consumers that strict economic, social, and environmental criteria were met in the production and trade of an agricultural product.”

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