Equitable Trade and Southern Africa: A Cookie Cutter Approach Will Cost Lives and Livelihoods

As members of the U.S. – Southern Africa Customs Union Free Trade Agreement Working Group (U.S.-SACU FTA Working Group), the Center shares the goals of a more just, sustainable and prosperous human society in the region. In this spirit, the Center and and more than a dozen other groups raised serious concerns related to the negotiations of the U.S.-SACU FTA and offer recommendations that are essential to a more just trade relationship between the United States and the nations of Southern Africa in this letter to embassadors and Congressional leaders.