Impacts of trade deals - How Europe's free trade deals have affected Mexico and South Africa

The European Union is currently negotiating a new wave of trade deals that will benefit European corporations at the expense of the world’s poorest people. These trade deals are unfair. They will reduce the ability of developing countries to use important policy tools to boost their own development and to support local industries. The evidence shows that these deals will not benefit the poor in these countries but will benefit a few multinational companies. The World Development Movement (WDM) is calling for these trade deals to be stopped. WDM analyses past trade deals in Mexico and South Africa to highlight the negative impact of such deals.