Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code
What is Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code?
The ETI Base Code is the internationally-recognised code of labour practice maintained by the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), a multi-stakeholder alliance of companies, trade unions and NGOs founded in the United Kingdom. The Base Code, founded on the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), sets out nine provisions for the labour conditions of workers in global supply chains. It comprises 9 controls organised across 1 domains, and applies in International (ETI - UK-based alliance).
How Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code maps to other frameworks
All 9 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 1 domains Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code. The number is how many Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
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Questions people ask about Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code
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Query Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code programmatically
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code, its 9 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code API reference and MCP config →What Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) Base Code control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
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