International trade agreements offer developing countries in southern Africa an opportunity to gain the revenue necessary to meet development targets. However, these agreements are often unfair and weighted in favour of developed countries. ACTSA campaigns for fundamental change to the unjust rules and institutions governing international trade, so that trade is made to work for all.

EPA Campaign Latest Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are unfair trade deals the European Commission is trying to force on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. These unfair trade deals are already having a major impact on southern Africa, destroying jobs, small farmers livelihoods and local industry.   ACTSA want to see the European Union promote a pro-development trade policy. In their current form EPAs threaten to flood African markets with subsidised European goods and undermine poor farmers and vulnerable producers. EPA update: February 2009   Take Action   Join ACTSA in calling on the new Trade Commissioner, Baroness Ashton, to agree to renegotiate the contentious clauses in the European Commission’s EPAs. Email Baroness Ashton	Know more EPAs an Update New Deals, New Dangers Campaign History ACTSA is a member of the Trade Justice Movement