AIRE- Goals and Pursuits
- Uniting modern, Independent Trade Organizations through common vision and standards
- Promoting Barter as a beneficial and advantageous form of commerce to consumers and traders
- Stimulating expansion of Barter commerce among its members to enhance growth and profitability
- Increasing professional standards by educating and training its members
- Leading Independent Exchanges though a realistic suggested code of ethics, specifically applicable to Independent Barter Entrepreneurs
- Encouraging Brokers to share and utilize resources through a common currency
- Helping members maximize their potential to capture new traders, manage existing resources and increase profitability through technology
- Promoting the importance of independence, self-governance and the ideology that bigger is no longer better