FAIR, JUST AND FREE TRADE

Early day motion 13, tabled 15 November 2006 by Andrew Mitchell (Conservative). Signed by 98 members.

That this House believes that a fair and just world trading system is vital if poverty is to be eradicated; recognises the devastating effects that protectionist policies in developed countries, particularly the EU's Common Agricultural Policy and US farm subsidies, currently have on the ability of people in poor countries to trade their way out of poverty; recognises the failure of protectionist policies to reduce poverty; and believes that the British Government should champion the benefits of free trade and push the EU and US to scrap their immoral and hypocritical trade subsidies and tariffs, particularly in the agricultural sector, in order to secure a breakthrough in world trade talks.

Signatures by party: Conservative 77, Liberal Democrat 13, Labour 4, DUP 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.