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Resources and links

Recent reports

• The New Resource Grab: How EU Trade Policy on Raw Materials is Undermining Development – November 2010 (PDF 3.85MB)
  This report examines both the EU's attempt to curb or ban the use of export taxes by developing countries, as well as its attempts to negotiate new rules on investment that will give European companies unprecedented access to raw materials in developing countries.
• Oxfam New Zealand’s submission on PACER Plus – November 2009 (PDF 1MB)
• PACER Plus and its Alternatives: Oxfam outlines the options for trade negotiations between the Pacific and Australia and New Zealand, and calls for a new approach -- July 2009 (PDF 472 KB)
• Partnership or Powerplay? Oxfam calls for rethink of unfair EU trade deals before it's too late -- April 2008 (1MB)
• Assessing the development friendliness of dispute settlement mechanisms in the Economic Partnership Agreements -- August 2008 (PDF 1MB)
• Appendices to the dispute settlement mechanisms in EPAs (PDF 890kb)
• Competition policy in Economic Partnership Agreements -- April 2008 (PDF 273kb)
• Intellectual Property in EU EPA's with the ACP Countries: What way Forward after the Cariforum EPA -- April 2008 (PDF265kb)
• Government procurement provisions in Cariforum EPA and lessons for other ACP states -- April 2008 (PDF 178kb)
• Investment Provisions in EPAs -- March 2008
• Appendices to Investment Provisions in EPAs
• Rules of Origin and EPAs - what has been agreed, what does it mean and what next? -- March 2008
• A matter of political will: How the European Union can maintain market access for African, Carribean and Pacific countries in the absence of Economic Partnership Agreements -- April 2007 (PDF File 256KB)
• Slamming the door on development : Analysis of the EU’s response to the Pacific’s EPA negotiating proposals -- December 2006 (PDF File 78kb)
• Oxfam was one of few civil society participants to the Pacific Trade Ministerial held in Vanuatu in August 2007. Read Oxfam's summary of the meeting which was dominated by discussions on the way forward on Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) negotiations with the European Commission (EC).
• Read Oxfam's briefing paper: Weighing the Options (PDF File 145kb) which provides Pacific governments, civil society and members of the public with analysis aimed at clarifying some of the key decisions that need to be taken on the way forward in the region’s Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations with the European Commission.
  

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Related links

• Find out about Fair Trade
• Visit http://www.maketradefair.com/ for more on the international campaign to Make Trade Fair.
• Make Trade Fair is part of the global call to action against poverty. Find out more about the Make Poverty History campaign.
• The World Trade Organisation website www.wto.org