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Standards and pricing work in progress

We regularly set new Fairtrade Standards and prices or review existing ones. Here you can get an overview of what we're working on and find announcements of new or revised standards and prices.

Key project elements explained

Project assignments: Provide details on project start and end, project objectives and central contact person within Fairtrade International. You are invited to comment on these project assignments through the project assignment feedback form.

Project profiles: Provide similar information as the project assignments, but at a higher level of detail.

Public consultation documents: Present the draft standard to the public for comments within a given time period. Stakeholders interested in taking part in the standard setting or review process are invited to submit their feedback using the formats offered by Fairtrade International.

Consultation feedback summaries: Provide the main results of a consultation process once it has been closed and explain how these results where taken into account for the next draft version of the standard.

Bananas, fruit, vegetables

Cocoa

  • New certification requirement: Cocoa - 2020

  • Q&A: Fairtrade certification requirement for cocoa and coffee producer organizations and traders

  • Cocoa Standard Review

  • Cocoa Price Review

  • Announcement letter

Coffee

  • Standard review Coffee - 2024

  • Coffee Price Announcement - 2023

  • Cost of sustainable production revision: Coffee - 2023

Cotton, textiles and fibre crops

Flowers and plants

Gold and precious metals

  • Standard review: Gold and precious metals - 2018

Nuts and Oils

Sugar

Tea

  • Criteria suspension: Hired Labour Standard – 2023

  • Suspension of the requirement 3.5.4 of the Hired Labour Standard in Sri Lanka

  • Tea Pricing Announcement

Generic standards

Pilot projects

To keep up with latest developments in trade, legislation, or consumer preferences and maximise impact for farmers and workers, we develop and test new ideas for further improving our standards through pilot projects.

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