How much money do the artisans and producers make?

How much money do the artisans and producers make?

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Establishing a fair price requires a certain amount of conversation and openness, the amount of money that is going back directly to the artisan; it is not a hard and fast number. What is important in fair trade is that because it's direct trade, the producer is getting the maximum amount of return from the purchase. In conventional trade sometimes that is very small, less than a percentage. Often in fair trade, that's fifteen percent, maybe even as high as thirty percent. It's not that those are set numbers, but what you see, consistently, is that the producer is getting more from your purchase; that more of that is going back to them, and that is what is really important.