"I like this idea, but I have to agree it would be unlikely for most people to pay $600 for a free-trade iPad when they can get the same thing for $500." Then

"I like this idea, but I have to agree it would be unlikely for most people to pay $600 for a free-trade iPad when they can get the same thing for $500." Then it should be made mandatory, so that no gadget could be sold in the market that is not made in fair trade conditions --even if it was made elsewhere. You should be competing on price by slashing your profit margins or finding some more efficient engineering/materials etc, not by turning wages and working conditions into a race to the bottom.