Trade

What role should the EU take in reforming our broken food system?

New book Trade Secrets is based on a thorough analysis of leaked papers from three years of secretive trade talks, as well as multiple other official documents and sources.

Campaigners take 'huge' open letter to Secretary of State, Liz Truss.

National Farmers' Union urges government to honour manifesto pledge that environmental and animal welfare standards for food produced in the UK are not undermined by future trade policy.

Agriculture Bill should protect UK farmers and consumers from deregulated imports in the event of a US UK trade deal. 

Emerging science sheds light on the relationship between virus spread and habitat loss.

The UK government needs a pragmatic and ambitious approach to stamping out the illegal wildlife trade post-Brexit.

UK government admits that secret trade talks are underway with unnamed countries.

National Farmers' Union, RSPB, Greenpeace sign letter to Boris Johnson PM demanding food standards protected as the UK prepares to leave the EU.

Campaigners Global Justice Now challenge UK government to release all post-Brexit trade papers.

The US has banned any mention of climate change in US-UK trade talks.

Liz Truss must release records of US-UK trade talks following drug prices pledge.

We must call for an end to the deregulatory ‘free trade’ and tax policies that make practices like re-importation and redundant trade profitable.

Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.

Trade can have both positive and negative impacts on the environment. MPs are calling for evidence on both for an upcoming inquiry.

The UK’s new trade secretary met last year with climate-sceptic think tanks that are behind Trump’s programme of deregulation and tax cuts.

Coalition argues for laws guaranteeing that products sold in the EU do not cause deforestation and human rights abuses in Brazil.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump are trying to give TTIP a second life in a different form.

British food standards are under threat, campaign leaders warn.

The UK Government and industry players are looking to revitalise domestic mining, placing communities and ecosystems under threat.

Department for International Trade won’t release any of its modelling until after Britain leaves the European Union.

A challenging day for the Department for International Trade and Liam Fox's post-brexit Trade Bill.

A Trans-Pacific Partnership deal would 'threaten food standards and public services'.

The Trade Bill currently passing through parliament could result in Britain doing trade deals which undergo less scrutiny than through the European Union. This is not taking back control, argues SOPHIE HARDEFELDT