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Ensure that key suppliers comply with applicable laws and adhere to responsible practices |
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Partner with suppliers to help achieve our CSR objectives |
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 Reynolds American and its operating companies believe in a fundamental set of values, and these values guide the relation-ships enjoyed with the many suppliers that provide goods and services to the companies.
Within these supply chain relationships, each company manages its sourcing processes ethically, and each company holds itself and its suppliers to high standards of behavior. This means complying with all applicable laws and regulations, and it means that each company is committed to working with its suppliers to encourage responsible practices throughout the supply network.
While each RAI operating company believes in the fundamental tenets of supplier responsibility, each company has its own unique approach to managing its supplier relationships. The supplier responsibility plank team is working to structure a broad program that promotes alignment of expectations and requirements across the operating companies, while still allowing each company to execute against those expectations independently, in line with their differing business circumstances.
While we look forward to sharing best practices during this important process, we recognize that because of its size and long history, R.J. Reynolds is further along than the other operating companies in the area of establishing formal supplier standards.
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R.J. Reynolds’ contracts with domestic tobacco growers require the growers to adhere to all applicable laws, rules and regulations in the production and processing of tobacco.
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