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. In addition to the attached pages, the following events have also taken place and are awaiting publication of meeting minutes:
- UK-Andean Civil Society Dialogue, 18 July 2023
- UK-Viet Nam Joint Forum, 1 August 2023
- UK-Canada Civil Society Forum, 20 November 2023