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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Caroline Spelman (Conservative), on Monday, 16 June 2003, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 127 members in total.

TRADE JUSTICE MOVEMENT

That this House shares the concern of the Trade Justice Movement about the plight of the poorest people in the world, and congratulates them on bringing them to the attention of the public; notes with concern the fact that a billion live on less than a dollar a day, that life expectancy in many African countries is declining, and that 30 million people in Africa have HIV/AIDS; believes that rising levels of international trade and trade liberalisation offer the best hope of alleviating poverty in the developing world; calls for quality legal and economic advice for developing countries on trade issues; believes that the Government has failed to do enough to promote trade liberalisation, reform agricultural subsidies and phase out European trade barriers; and further calls on the Government to use the World Trade Organisation meeting at Cancun to do more to reform the international trade rules to give poor countries a fair deal on international trade.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 4 amendments.

1421A2
Line 5, leave out from 'trade' to 'of' in line 6 and insert 'offers one of the best ways'.
1421A3
Line 6, after 'world' insert 'but also believes that devloping countries should be able to regulate their economies as appropriate to their development needs; calls for'.
1421A4
Line 8, leave out from second 'to' to 'reform'.
1421A1
Line 7, leave out from 'issues' to end and add 'applauds the stance the Government has taken to reform agricultural subsidies and phase out European Trade barriers; warmly endorses its commitment not to sign up to anything at Cancun that it does not believe to be in the interest of devloping countries; and welcomes the apparent new-found interest of the Conservative Party in development matters after their record in Government of halving the proportion of GNP devoted to aid and consistently neglecting the trade needs of the developing world.'

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
1421 
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1421A3 
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1421A1 
Session
2002-03
Subjects
Developing countries Trade
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk