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QUESTION: ACCORDING TO AL LIU’S ARTICLE IN THE AUGUST+SEPTEMBER ISSUE, WHAT ORGANIZATION CERTIFIES COFFEE AS ‘DIRECT TRADE’?
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None!
None. No official certification for Direct Trade.
There is none as of yet
There is no organization certifying direct trade, unless you consider the company itself selling the product.
Jason Pekoske
USA
Direct Trade is not certified by any organisation yet.
Konrad Synowiec
Poland
No organisation can certifie coffee as “Direct Trade”
Anastasia Chekhovich
Russia
Anyone can claim it’s coffee direct trade, as there is no set definition. There is no organisation for that.
Germany
Sorry I forgot to add some info in the last comment so please disregard that.
Al Liu has aptly said that in Direct Trade, anyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade because there is no set definition as to what it really is, nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade. So it is not a certification, nor does it establish a set of standard norms.
Country of Residence: USA
Full Name: Blessie Nelson
Al Liu has aptly said that in Direct Trade, anyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade because there is no set definition as to what it really is, nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade. So it is not a certification, nor does it establish a set of standard norms.
There is no organization that certifies Direct Trade at this time.
Barry Smith
USA
Direct trade is not certified by any organization!
NO DESIGNATED ORGANIZATION CERTIFIES COFFEE AS DIRECT TRADE.
Michael Kelly, USA
There is no organization that offers this. Direct trade on its own is not a certification nor does it represent an established set of standards or norms. Rather, direct trade is a general concept that is open to different interpretations.
Alvaro Castro
El Salvador
There isn’t a third party organization that certifies direct trade, as direct trade “does not represent an established set of standards or norms”.
Rachel Bebee
NE, USA
There is no “third party” organization that certifies “direct trade”. it’s open for interpretations, a general concept.
Josh Lindstrom
Minnesota, USA
The term “direct trade” is not a certified designation from any governing body.
There’s not an organization that certifies that way.
Jay Haynes USA
There is no official certifying body for the term, “direct trade”.
There is no organization that certifies direct trade coffee.
Su Eng Tan
USA
There is no organization that certifies direct trade coffee.
Chuk-Yang Seng
USA
Direct trade is not a certification but a way how to buy coffee, therefore there is no organisation which certifies direct trade.
Valerian Hrala
CA, USA
No organization certifies for direct trade as of yet.
Kim Watson
USA
Donna Robertson
Arkansas, USA
“Anyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade because there is no set definition as to what it really is, nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.”
No organization certifies coffees as “direct trade” nor are there official regulations to associated with the term.
Tim Cox
Dallas, TX
There is not an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Ray Matheny
USA
There is not an official organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Clarissa Adams, USA
there is not yet an organization that labels coffee as “certified direct trade”. it’s as of now just the companies themselves throwing around the term related to their buying practices.
Josh Elyachar
NYC, USA
There is no organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Zachary Coté
California, USA
There is no official organization/governing body that labels coffee as œcertified direct trade .
Curtis Lu
Seattle, WA USA
Direct trade is not certified by any organization, it is simply an openly interpretable term used to describe a buying practice.
Harold McGovern
Brooklyn ny USA
There is no organization like this yet.
Michaela Fürstová, Czech republic
Trick Question. No organization certifies Coffee as Direct trade.
Paul Shoupe, USA
There is no organization that offers this. Direct trade on its own is not a certification nor does it represent an established set of standards or norms. Rather, direct trade is a general concept that is open to different interpretations.
Jacob Archer
Seattle, WA USA
There’s no organization that offers that specific certification. It is a research by itself that the buyer does in situ where the coffee is grown.
Sheers! a cup if Honduran Coffee!
Marta C..~
Houston, TX
There is no official organization/governing body that labels coffee as “certified direct trade”.
Joaquin Garcia
United States of America
There ain’t such a thing! Direct Trade is a great idea but open to the interpretation of the company labeling it.
Nathan Howes USA
There is not a certain organization that certifies direct trade just yet.
No governing body that certifies DIRECT TRADE
There is no organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
“…there is no set definition as to what it really is, nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.”
Marie Cullinan
USA
œNo third party organization is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.
Chad Coburn
Ohio, USA
œNo third party organization is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.
There isn’t an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Robbie Melton
Louisville, KY USA
Kyle Gooch, Canada
There is no organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Al states that œAnyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade and presently, there is no “third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.
There’s not an organization that certifies as direct.
Jay Haynes USA
None!
Karl Fisher, USA
No organization certifies a coffee as direct trade
There is no organization that certifies direct trade.
There is no organization that does direct trade certification.
Andrew Bemis, USA
There’s no organization that certifies coffee as such..
Octavio Castillo, USA
The cake is a lie.
Nika Rodriguez – USA
There is no organization that does direct trade certification.
Joel Gargaro – USA
There is not an organization that certifies direct trade.
Kari Guddeck, USA
No organization certifies this. It’s claimable by any coffee company and open to interpretation.
Dustin Pattison
Portland, OR
There is not an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
There’s no third party organization that certifies as direct trade.
Noah Namowicz
Cafe Imports
Saint Paul, MN
“Anyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade because there is no set definition as to what it really is, nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.”
Paul Brock USA
No organization certifies direct trade.
Danae Hendrickson, USA
None.
Rachel Markowitz, USA
No organization officially sets the standard for “Direct Trade”. It is a general concept.
There is no organization that does this.
Charlie Blasky- U.S. of A
No one certifies “direct Trade”
Eric Hammond USA
No one organization and/or business certifies whether coffee is “direct trade” or not.
There is no organization that certifies direct trade.
Scott Isely -USA
There is no organization that certifies coffee as “direct trade”
Taryn Peake, USA
No organization makes a certification for direct trade. It is a general concept.
Krzysztof Barabosz, POLAND
No organization oversees Direct Trade certification
Rob Adair, USA
“One important consideration is that direct trade on its own is not a certification, nor does it represent an established set of standards or norms. Rather, direct trade is a general concept that is open to different interpretations.”
Roscoe Aquilo, U.S.A.
No organization sets a standard for Direct Trade certification because it is a general concept, not a set of rules buyers and producers must follow.
Jonathan De Troye, USA.
No organization certifies a coffee as direct trade
David Bise USA
There is no organization that certifies coffee as œDirect Trade . Barb Granados, Dallas, TX, USA
There is no third party organization that certifies direct trade.
Ryan Jarboe, USA
There is not an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Tyler Kelly
USA
There is not an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Lyndsay Kelly
USA
No organization certifies Direct Trade, it is a general concept that is open to interpretation.
Nick Paruch, USA
No third-party organization certifies coffee as “direct trade.” Tricky! Thanks for the opportunity.
–Joshua Viau (USA)
There is no organization that certifies coffee as “Direct Trade”.
The article states, “One important consideration is that direct trade on its own is not a certification, nor does it represent an established set of standards or norms. Rather, direct trade is a general concept that is open to different interpretations.
Dennis Sullivan, USA
No organization certifies direct trade.
Diego Peña, USA
There is no organization that certifies coffee as direct trade. Any coffee can claim it.
Adam Kornegay, USA
There isn’t an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Sarah Hovar, USA
There’s not an organization that cerifies as direct trade.
Hope Wiseman USA
No organization certifies direct trade.
Erica Brown United States
There is no ORG that certifies as this label!
Kaycee Owens: USA
There is no organization that can certify coffee as “direct trade.” In fact, the very concept of direct trade challenges the idea that there ever CAN be an overseeing organization.
Shane Parrott, USA
There’s not an organization that certifies coffee as direct trade.
Jay Haynes ~ USA
“No third party organization is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.”
Ike Bubna, USA
No organization certifies a coffee as direct trade, it is open to interpretation.
Eric Berrong, USA
There is no organization that “CERTIFIES COFFEE AS ˜DIRECT TRADE'”.
Virgil Hovar, USA
Al states that “direct trade on its own is not a certification”, “Anyone can claim that a coffee is direct trade”, “nor is there a third-party organization that is recognized as the sole arbitrator of direct trade.”