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UK trade strategy must promote workers' rights and good jobs

TUC response to Department for Business and Trade

Report type

Consultation response

Issue date

11 Mar 2025

Key findings

The TUC responded to the Department of Business and Trade's consultation on trade strategy. The TUC said the UK government should:

prioritise the EU as a trading partner as one which respects high standards of workers' rights.

halt negotiations with countries that do not respect fundamental workers’ rights including the Gulf Cooperation Council states, India, Israel, South Korea and Türkiye

halt negotiations with Israel due to its persistent breaches of international law and abuse of human rights
use trade remedies to protect the steel sector

replace Economic Partnership Agreements with unilateral tariff free access to the UK market for appropriate Global South countries

use its seat at the WTO to call for reformed global trade rules to allow Global South countries to protect domestic industries to enable Just Transition

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