Collection: Transparent Trade Wholesale
The direct trade movement places a heavy emphasis on origin — from a marketing perspective, a coffee quality perspective and an economic justice perspective. As such, a growing number of specialty coffee roasters are spending time at origin, working with farmers to ensure they receive the desired quality outcomes while generating the desired community impacts. This ranges from the larger direct trade pioneers like Intelligentsia, Counter Culture and Stumptown, to growing players like PT’s and Bird Rock, to scores of smaller roasters scattered throughout the globe.
A typical articulation of the benefits of these direct trade efforts boils down to a variant of, “intermediaries are bad, and because direct trade eliminates them, it must be good.” This belief is cultivated among specialty coffee drinkers, who are allowed to envision their roasters working around an obsolete system of intermediaries to offer both farmers and customers a better deal.
When speaking more carefully, or when articulated by movement pioneers, the potential of direct trade does not come from simply removing middlemen. Rather, directness provides a means to work collaboratively to improve the supply of high-quality coffee, which provides better prices and incomes for farmers. This dual emphasis on spending time at origin to (1) improve the supply of high-quality coffee so that (2) coffee farmers can earn better incomes provides a simple framework for discussing what happens when specialty coffee supply chains are made shorter.
The work is an outgrowth of Transparent Trade Coffee which launched in 2015 to provide a forum where consumers, curious about their coffee choices, can review pricing details from direct trade roasters at the time of sale.
That process should value the community of growers, producers, and makers whose livelihoods depend on imports like coffee, cacao and chocolate. They print a transparency report inside every product. Learn more about Transparent Trade progressive sourcing transparency.
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Oat Milk Chocolate Bars, 58% Cocoa / Cacao, Breakfast Chocolate, Vegan, Dairy-Free, Raw, Cane Sugar-Free, Unroasted Chocolate - 12 Bars x 1.8oz
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Rawmio Active Superfood Organic Raw Chocolate Bark - 12 Bars x 1.76oz
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Fine & Raw Hazelnut Butter Chocolate Bar - 10 x 2oz
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Fine and Raw Dark Chocolate & Espresso Beans Bar (70% Cocoa / Cacao), Organic - 10 Bars x 2oz
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Fine and Raw Chocolate Bars, Cashew Butter Filled, Organic (54% Cocoa / Cacao) - 10 Bars x 2oz
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Pumpkin Spice Gold Coffee Seasonal, Low Acid - 6 Bags x 7 Pouches
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Organic Original Bissap Hibiscus Tea Bottles - 12 x 12oz
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Ethiopian Coffee Beans (Light Roast) - 12 OZ
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Boulder Blend Coffee Beans (Medium Roast) - 12 OZ
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Mean Street Coffee Beans (Dark Roast) - 12 OZ
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Honduran Decaf Coffee Beans (Dark Roast) - 12 OZ
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Be Golden Mug
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Golden Ratio Gift Card
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Sut Nut Berry Chocolate Bars - 12 x 2.2oz
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12 Oz Gold Coffee (USA Customers)
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Spice Warrior Chocolate Bars - 12 x 2.2.oz
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Whole Bean Roasted Coffee (Dark Roast) Bag - 1 x 3 oz
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Raspberry Ganache Tea Pouches - 6 x 2oz
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- $67.50
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Smoky Fruit Punch Tea Pouches - 6 x 2oz
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Crème Brulee Black Tea (Loose Leaf) - 6 Bags x 2oz
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Pineapple Lemonade Tea Pouches - 6 x 2oz
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Peach Bourbon Tea Pouches - 6 x 2oz
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Black Confetti Tea (Loose Leaf) - 6 Bags x 2oz
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Honey Bourbon Black Tea (Loose Leaf) - 6 Bags x 2oz
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Mint Chocolate Rose Black Tea (Loose Leaf) - 6 Bags x 2oz
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Palenque Coffee Beans (Light Roast) - 10 Bags x 10.58oz
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- $90.00
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Palenque Whole Coffee Beans (Light Roast) - 6 Bags x 2 LB
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Tonala Coffee Beans (Medium-Dark Roast) - 10 Bags x 10.58oz
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Tonala Coffee Beans (Medium-Dark Roast) - 6 Bags x 2 LB
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Tonala Coffee Beans (Medium-Dark Roast) - 1 Bag x 5 LB
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Arandas Coffee Beans (Medium-Dark Roast) - 10 Bags x 10.58oz
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Arandas Coffee Beans (Medium-Dark Roast) - 6 Bags x 2 LB
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