Daring to Dream The future of Trade

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Daring to Dream?The future of Trade
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Challenging Convention

• Whoever loves money never has money
• enough whoever loves wealth is never
• satisfied
• (Ecclesiastes 610)

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Economic Partnership Agreements Impact

• 750 million worlds poorest people could be
  worse off.
• Many industries and farmers livelihoods are
  likely to be destroyed.
• Less income from trade taxes to invest in vital
  services.

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What can I do?

• Pray
• Act

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Pray
Alistair Darling UK Secretary of State for Trade
Industry

• Angela Merkel
• German Chancellor

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Act
Send a Postcard to Angela Merkel and Alistair
Darling asking that they

• Stop EPA deals in their current form
• Find alternatives that work in favour of poor
  countries

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More info?

• Find out more at www.tearfund.org/trade