Permission to Trade

Intermediate, temporary allowance to start trading under Fairtrade conditions. It does by no means represent a valid Fairtrade certificate and it is linked to certain conditions.

There is a difference in the Permission to Trade for traders and producers: Traders, upon receipt of payment of the initial certification fee, receive a preliminary Permission to Trade valid for nine months. For producer organizations, the Permission to Trade will be issued if there are no major non-conformities identified during the initial audit of the producer organization until the audit evaluation is completed and a certificate is issued.