Fair Trade focuses in particular on exports from developing countries to developed countries, most notably handicrafts, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea, bananas, honey, cotton, wine, fresh fruit, chocolate, flowers and gold.

Fair Trade is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade.

Fair trade connecting them to customers and allowing access with fewer middlemen. Student groups have also been increasingly active in the past years promoting fair trade products. A web movement has recently begun to provide fair trade items at fair prices to the consumers.

The first fair trade agricultural products were tea and coffee, quickly followed by dried fruits, cocoa, sugar, fruit juices, rice, spices, and nuts.

Fair Trade is, fundamentally, a response to the failure of conventional trade to deliver sustainable livelihoods and development opportunities to people in the poorest countries of the world. Poverty and hardship limit people’s choices while market forces tend to further marginalise and exclude them. This makes them vulnerable to exploitation, whether as farmers and artisans in family-based production units or as hired workers within larger businesses.