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Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group (TSD DAG): meeting agendas and minutes

Meeting agendas and minutes from the TSD DAG.DAG, a group set up to discuss trade and sustainable development in UK trade agreements that are in force.

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The Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group (TSD DAG) was setappointed upin toSeptember discuss2022, through fair and open competition, to:

  • support the effective implementation of trade and sustainable developmentdevelopment, labour and environment chapters in UKthe UK’s trade agreements thatwith arenon-EU partners

  • monitor and make recommendations on matters in force.scope of these chapters

The agreements in scope are:

  • Andean (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama)
  • EEA EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway)
  • Georgia
  • Japan
  • Moldova
  • New Zealand
  • Singapore
  • South Korea
  • Vietnam
  • Ukraine

The TSD DAG publishesmembers meetingare:

  • British agendasExporters andAssociation minutes(BExA)
  • Fairtrade betweenFoundation
  • National themselvesFarmers’ Union (NFU)
  • Queen’s University Belfast
  • techUK
  • TheCityUK
  • Trade and thePublic DepartmentPolicy forNetwork Business(TaPP andNetwork)
  • Trades TradeUnion (DBT),Congress formerly(TUC)
  • UK knownChamber asof theShipping
  • UK DepartmentFashion forand InternationalTextile TradeAssociation (DIT).

    (UKFT)
  • University of Sheffield
  • World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Published 22 September 2022
Last updated 2611 AprilAugust 20242023 + show all updates
  1. Minutes for the second and third meetings between the TSD DAG and DBT added to page.

  2. Added Australia and New Zealand to the agreements in scope list.

  3. EEA, EFTA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) added to the list of agreements in scope.

  4. Added minutes of the first meeting between the TSD DAG and DIT from September 2022.