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Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group documents

Documents containing information from the Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group (TSD DAG).

The Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group (TSD DAG) was appointed in September 2022, through fair and open competition, to:

  • support the effective implementation of trade and sustainable development, labour and environment chapters in the UK’s trade agreements with non-EU partners
  • monitor and make recommendations on matters in 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

Members

The TSD DAG members are:

  • British Exporters Association (BExA)
  • Fairtrade Foundation
  • National Farmers’ Union (NFU)
  • Queen’s University Belfast
  • techUK
  • TheCityUK
  • Trade and Public Policy Network (TaPP Network)
  • Trades Union Congress (TUC)
  • UK Chamber of Shipping
  • UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT)
  • University of Sheffield
  • World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

TSD DAG meeting information

These events allow for meaningful dialogue, collaboration, and exchanging information between the government and the UK TSD DAG to facilitate the smooth and effective implementation of relevant chapters.

Partner country Joint Forums

Joint Forum events allow TSD DAG members, and occasionally the public, to discuss sustainable development with partner country governments and stakeholders.

Updates to this page

Published 26 April 2024
Last updated 22 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. '13 to 14 July 2023: Joint minutes of the second UK-Andean Trade and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee' and '1 August 2023: report of the first Joint Forum on Trade and Sustainable Development' added to Partner country joint forums.

  2. A link to the joint summary of the first UK-Canada Civil Society Forum for 20 November has been added under the heading 'partner country joint forums'.

  3. First published.