The International Development Strategy: a response from TJM and Traidcraft Exchange

"Trade needs to act in the interests of development, not the other way around" Read our response to the new International Development Strategy

TJM response to announcement of new Trade Bill

We are cautious about the new Trade Bill covering agreements with Australia and New Zealand as referenced in the Queen’s Speech today.

Trade after the pandemic: priorities for building back better

Join us on 19 May for a conversation exploring how the trade system could better serve people and the planet.

COVID 19: Trade rules, vaccines and the pandemic response

From patent rules blocking vaccine dissemination to shortages of PPE, join us on 5 May to find out what role trade play in govts responses to Covid.

Trade Justice APPG meeting to discuss UK-Australia trade and agriculture

The Trade Justice All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) will meet 27 April to discuss the Trade and Agriculture Commission report on UK-Australia trade

Carbon Border Adjustments and climate waivers: are trade deals going green?

Can trade deals be made sustainable with new policy innovations, or is this greenwash? Find out in this webinar on 21 April.

Trade, agriculture and climate change: Standards and beyond

As farmers battle a changing climate, this webinar on 7 April explores the complex effects of trade deals on agriculture and the rural environment.

Trade, energy, fossil fuels and the green recovery

Climate change demands an end to fossil fuel use. Join this webinar on 24 March exploring how trade and investment deals need to change.

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The International Development Strategy: a response from TJM and Traidcraft Exchange

"Trade needs to act in the interests of development, not the other way around" Read our response to the new International Development Strategy

TJM response to announcement of new Trade Bill

We are cautious about the new Trade Bill covering agreements with Australia and New Zealand as referenced in the Queen’s Speech today.

Trade after the pandemic: priorities for building back better

Join us on 19 May for a conversation exploring how the trade system could better serve people and the planet.

COVID 19: Trade rules, vaccines and the pandemic response

From patent rules blocking vaccine dissemination to shortages of PPE, join us on 5 May to find out what role trade play in govts responses to Covid.

Trade Justice APPG meeting to discuss UK-Australia trade and agriculture

The Trade Justice All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) will meet 27 April to discuss the Trade and Agriculture Commission report on UK-Australia trade

Carbon Border Adjustments and climate waivers: are trade deals going green?

Can trade deals be made sustainable with new policy innovations, or is this greenwash? Find out in this webinar on 21 April.

Trade, agriculture and climate change: Standards and beyond

As farmers battle a changing climate, this webinar on 7 April explores the complex effects of trade deals on agriculture and the rural environment.

Trade, energy, fossil fuels and the green recovery

Climate change demands an end to fossil fuel use. Join this webinar on 24 March exploring how trade and investment deals need to change.

The UK’s trade deal with New Zealand is a baby step. We need a giant leap.

The UK’s trade deal with New Zealand: great if you like wine, not so good if you’re worried about the climate crisis.

What could a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council mean for women, for workers and for human rights?

Join this webinar on 10 March 2022 to understand what a trade deal with the Gulf Co-operation Council means for women, for workers and human rights

An India-UK free trade agreement: farmers, medicines and tech

Join this webinar on 24 February 2022 exploring the implications of a UK-India FTA for food, medicines and digital rights

UK trade policy post-Brexit, post-Covid

Following a dramatic few years for UK trade, this seminar on 10 February explored what's happened and what's at stake in 2022.

TJM launches briefing series on trade justice

Watch our eight-part briefing series, including events that explore our new trade landscape, post-Covid recovery, climate, agriculture and much more.

TJM response to Gulf Cooperation Council Inquiry

Australia deal is a disaster for UK climate policy

The UK signing a deal with Australia, one of the world’s worst climate offenders, demonstrates trade still does not align with UK climate commitments.

The Board of Trade report's ambitions are too low

The second Board of Trade report “Green Trade” sets out the economic case for green trade, but we find that its ambitions are set too low.

Future UK trade agreements need to be compatible with its obligations on climate change, according to new report

Ahead of the UK hosting COP 26 later this year, we are calling on the UK government to ensure that trade help rather than hinder climate action.

Concern about climate impacts of the Asia-Pacific trade partnership

The Government has published its position on CPTPP and we raise our concern in our statement and analysis of what we know so far.

How trade can support climate action: an international conversation

ONLINE EVENT on 13 July 2021, 10am -12pm BST: How trade can support climate action

Analysis of the UK-Australia trade Agreement in Principle

Here is an initial analysis of the UK-Australia trade Agreement in Principle

5 things the Australia trade deal should include if the UK is serious about G7 commitements

Here are five things the deal should contain if the UK is serious about its G7 commitments

APPG on Trade Justice meets to discuss the UK-Australia trade deal

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Trade Justice is organising a meeting on the opportunities and risks of a UK-Australia trade deal.

Statement: TJM’s response to the announcement of the new UK-Australia trade deal

TJM’s response to the announcement of the new UK-Australia trade deal

Ten things you should know about Trade and Climate Change

We are urging the G7 leaders to ensure the trade system works for the climate with the "Ten things you should know about Trade and Climate Change".

The Australia trade deal makes a mockery of the UK’s climate ambition

The UK must urgently put the brakes on any deal that doesn’t align with its legally binding climate targets.

There are worrying omissions in the new ‘trailblazing’ trade deals with Canada and Mexico

There is little guidance on how the government’s new deals will translate into jobs and prosperity, let alone how they align with climate commitments.

TJM response to the new UK Investment Council

The government should set out clear terms of reference for the Investment Council and seek the views of a broader cross-section of organisations.

As Brexit talks continue, we need a deal fit for a post-COVID world

EU-UK: We need a deal based on the free flow of essential goods, and support for the NHS and public health

Coronavirus is enough to deal with - We must extend the post-Brexit transition to get our EU-UK relationship right

EU-UK: Five reasons why we must extend the post-Brexit transition period to cope with coronavirus

A 'trade justice' analysis of what the UK government wants from the US and EU trade deals

US AND EU TRADE DEALS: A comparison of what the UK govt is asking for from these major trade partners

Why the EU’s request for a level playing field is in all our interests

EU-UK: The UK’s plan for EU trade puts workers’ rights, climate action and British agriculture at risk

Teachers' union joins civil society groups in demanding social and environmental protection in EU-UK trade deal

EU-UK: We must protect our environment and workers' rights in the new EU-UK deal

Joint briefing - Priorities for the EU-UK future trade relationship

EU-UK: A joint civil society briefing outlining priorities for the EU-UK future trade relationship

Workers, citizens and the NHS should be paying attention to the WTO’s digital trade deal

DIGITAL TRADE: Workers, citizens and the NHS should be paying attention to the WTO’s digital trade deal

Civil Society Organisations raise concerns about UK- Morocco Association Agreement

MOROCCO TRADE: Civil society concerns about the UK-Morocco trade agreement

Civil society's Red Lines for the US Trade Deal

US TRADE: Civil society groups have developed Red Lines, showing what we DO NOT want from a deal

Post-Brexit trade deals with the EU and the US will define our future. But MPs could be left without a say

EU-UK: Post-Brexit trade deals will define our future, but MPs could be left without a say.

Threat to our digital rights revealed in US-UK trade talks leak

US-UK: Leaked docs show the US is targeting our digital rights – and the UK seems willing to play ball.

Four reasons to fear a Boris-Trump trade deal

US-UK TRADE DEAL: Risks to the NHS and public services, food and farming, environment and democracy

Five things every worker should know about ‘digital trade’

DIGITAL TRADE: How the WTO's draft e-commerce deal could affect workers and deepen inequality

Can an ‘open relationship’ work after a UK-EU divorce?

EU-UK TRADE DEAL: For our NHS, environment and rights, there are three big risks from a future EU-UK deal.

The trade bill has been dropped – and now MPs have no way to stop bad deals after Brexit

TRADE DEMOCRACY: The UK's process for agreeing trade deals means our MPs will struggle to stop a bad US trade deal

An NHS sell-off, lower food standards and secretive corporate courts: the battles facing Britain's new trade secretary

The new trade secretary will be tasked with negotiating new trade deals. Here are some fault-lines expected to emerge.

The Geopolitics of Trade Deals and How They Threaten Human Rights

Trade deals have less to do with trade and more to do with politics

Why May's "Net Zero" commitment on climate change won't survive her successor's trade policy

CLIMATE JUSTICE: How trade deals stand in the way of climate action and the UK's Net Zero ambitions.

Trade justice must recover steam

Campaigners should press for fairness in post-Brexit agreements

Customs union leaves everything to play for on trade justice

A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate trade deals – so let's focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them

Race to the bottom: How trade deals are undermining standards that protect us.

'Better regulation' isn't always better, and 'regulatory cooperation' is often cooperating to deregulate.

Theresa May is treating parliament like she’s a freewheeling PM of the 1920s

When it comes to Brexit and trade deals, MPs only get a say at the last minute. Our outdated system of treaty scrutiny needs to change.

ISDS - The big threat to human rights hidden in our trade deals

This human rights threat could be inserted into every post-Brexit trade deal and is already part of many exisiting UK investment deals.

The problem with CRAG: why Parliament’s processes for approving trade deals needs reform

How a genuinely democratic system for approving international trade agreements could look in post-Brexit Britain

Liam Fox rushing through Brexit trade deals would mean bypassing democracy

Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these 'rollover' deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote

We Won't Get A 'Meaningful Vote' On A UK-US Trade Deal – Here's Why That Matters

Post-Brexit we will return to an outdated way of approving trade deals despite the impacts on public policy, health standards and the environment

Civil society statement against CETA

UK Civil Society organisationa call on MPs to reject CETA, which could have significant negative consequences for UK public services and regulation

Liam Fox’s ‘new for old’ Brexit trade deals should not bypass parliament and democratic scrutiny

The Trade Bill could result in Britain doing trade deals which undergo less scrutiny than through the European Union. This is not taking back control.

Free trade is bad for women. A WTO declaration won’t change that.

Gendered exploitation is at the heart of the free trade agenda - a few tweaks to the edges won’t make it feminist.

The gaping hole in the Trade Bill

The UK government's trade bill has nothing to ensure that trade deals are accountable to the public and parliament

Letter by leading academics calling for trade democracy

55 academics call on the government to amend the trade bill to include core scrutiny and accountability mechanisms

Parliament to be ‘shut out’ of post-Brexit trade deals

TJM's response to the UK Government's Trade White Paper

Big tobacco bullies the global south. Trade deals are their biggest weapon

Paul Keenlyside from TJM and Matt Bramall from Health Poverty Action on Big Tobacco's use of trade to force their products into new markets

Group letter to the next UK government on trade policy and climate change

Letter calling on the UK government to use its trade policy to reaffirm and strengthen a globally coordinated response to climate change

Responding to Trump, climate change and global delinquency

Paul Keenlyside from the TJM describes how trade policy should be repurposed to support action on climate change and deter free riding

We need to stop the financialisation of justice

Paul Keenlyside from the Trade Justice Movement describes how UK-based financial institutions are gambling on the outcome of ISDS cases

Workers’ rights are central to the UK’s post-Brexit trade deals

Rosa Crawford from the TUC describes the trade union fight for trade and investment agreements that support workers’ right in the UK and globally

General Election 2017: What is TJM calling for?

International trade will be one of the defining issues of the next Parliament and the UK’s future. Read TJM's 2017 General Election manifesto asks

The Multilateral Investment Court - the plot that just keeps running

Matt Grady from Traidcraft describes how the EC's proposed Multilateral Investment Court is a repackaging of the discredited ISDS system

Post-Brexit, we should all be worried about our BITs

Post-Brexit, the UK will likely need to renegotiate its trade deals, including BITs. Ruth Bergan of TJM revisits the implications for workers.

How UK trade policies could help heal global health care inequalities.

One-third of the world cannot access essential medicine. Leaders must push for trade deals that drive down healthcare costs for the world’s poorest

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