DFID replies to Traidcraft’s call for fairer trade deals

In December 2010, Traidcraft campaigners took action to support fairer trade deals for Africa as the Rt Hon Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, drafted the government’s new position paper on trade.

Emails were sent to Vince Cable and Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, asking them to put a fair approach to international trade agreements at the heart of UK trade policy.

You can read the reply from the Department for International Development (DFID) below. Traidcraft will continue to closely monitor the progress of Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations and the details of the Trade White Paper to keep the pressure up for fairer trade deals for Africa.