Questions and answers
What are EPAs and how do they affect developing countries? Plus lots more answers to all those tricky questions.
Read our questions and answers.
Download them as a booklet.
Briefing papers
The Cost of EPAs
Short briefing that questions the claims being made for EPAs, and lays out the real costs and benefits of the proposed deals.
Download The Cost of EPAs - short version (PDF)
Download The Cost of EPAs - full version (PDF)
EPAs: The Rhetoric and the Reality
Briefing on EPAs, how the negotiations are going, and what the ACP have to say about it all.
Download EPAs: The Rhetoric and the Reality (PDF)
Case studies
Why more free trade won't help Africa (September 2005)
Quick and easy to read colour guide to the impact of free trade on Kenya, co-written by Traidcraft and Kenyan NGO EcoNews Africa.
Download Why free trade won't help Africa (PDF)
Reports
EPAs: building or shattering African regional integration (May 2007)
Our latest report shows how EPAs will undermine the chance for African countries to build up their economies.
Download EPAs: building or shattering African regional integration (PDF)
Partnership Under Pressure: an assessment of the European Commission's conduct in the EPA negotiations (May 2007)
Report revealing the dirty tricks that the EU has used to get poor countries to sign EPAs.
Download Partnership Under Pressure (PDF)
EPAs: Through the Lens of Kenya (September 2005)
Co-written by Traidcraft and Kenyan NGO EcoNews Africa. Find out why Economic Partnership Agreements could devastate the African economy. Includes original case studies.
Download EPAs: Through the Lens of Kenya (PDF)
The New Trade Battleground: the WTO, EU and Economic Partnership Agreements (September 2003)
How the EU is using regional trade deals to push through measures that have been rejected at the WTO.
Download The New Trade Battleground (PDF)
