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The reality of today’s globalised world is one where many businesses are interconnected through vast and complex global value chains. Commodity trading firms (CTFs) are an important part of these value chains, buying raw commodities from primary producers, adding value through, for example, blending and crushing, and supplying to manufacturers. Business activities across many chains […]

Commodity traders play a key role in connecting global value chains by moving raw materials from the point of production or extraction, sometimes transforming them through processes such as blending, crushing, smelting before delivering them, often across distant geographies, to manufacturers of goods for retail markets. They are very much part of the global value […]

The recent developments around human rights due diligence measures in the run up to the referendum on the Swiss Responsible Business Initiative and the recently announced German Human Rights Due Diligence law throw a strong spotlight on global supply chains. While the exact provisions of the Swiss counterproposal and the German law are still to be unveiled […]

08.07.2022 Economiesuisse received various commodity trading players this week to discuss responsible management in the industry. The focus was on ...

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/swiss-commodity-traders-control-27-million-hectares-of-land-yet-fail-to-take-sufficient-responsibility-for-human-rights-environment-research-alleges/

The recent developments around human rights due diligence measures in the run up to the referendum on the Swiss Responsible Business ...