zero percent development

The country which has free 0% tariff access to the European market in the name of "development" doesn't even have a system to help Rana Plaza victims. It causes havoc in the UK by dumping and export subsidies, and havoc at home by bad government.

According to War on Want, some Rana Plaza victims now face destitution.

Demand compensation for the victims of the Bangladesh building collapse, says War on Want:
Petition to wholesale customers of Rana Plaza including Beneton, Mango, Primark, Bonarche and Matalan: pay compensation NOW

In April, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed killing over 1,100 people and injuring thousands more. The majority were female garment workers making clothes for the UK high street. Retailers Benetton, Bonmarché, Mango, Matalan and Primark all acknowledged recent production with the factories in the building. Click on the link above to ask for action for retailers, and consider what MEPs can do with tariffs to make the Bangladeshi government do its job.

Afterthought:
Why are Oxfam, ActionAid, War on Want, and the rest asking for this when they do not ask for a welfare state in Bangladesh?
I mean: it's obvious with CAFOD. They like to look caring next to suffering, so a bit of suffering is always welcome and if you can avoid talking about condoms then your faith group gets more market share, suffering or not. Caring enourages conversion. And the donations keep coming-in because they might secure UK parents a place for their offpring at a subsidised faith school.
But why do respectable charities work so hard not to offend?

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We pay several times for each badly-run country

We pay several times for each badly-run country.

We benefit once, or I do, because I'm wearing Primark's cheapest jeans.

♦ We pay in having fewer jobs, because there's less rag trade here.

♦ We pay in having fewer taxes for the same reason.

♦ We pay because our politicians send our army to those poor and unstable parts of the world that have no secondary education or welfare state.

♦ We pay in having unstable desperate parts of the world that refugees and economic migrants leave, overcrowding parts of the UK.

♦ We probably pay in the spread of disease - thinking more about African governments which choose not to set-up a health service.

♦ We pay 0.7% of our GDP, out of our taxes, towards the social services bills of badly-run countries like Bangladesh. Pakistani taxpayers pay less than that for their own few state hospitals, and many Pakistani MPs do not even bother to pay Pakistani tax. It's probably the same in Bangladesh or India.

So we have all paid six times for my pair of trousers and politicians' failure to write a proper tariff against goods from badly-run countries. That's before any ultuism towards people in Bangladesh. My jeans are beginning to feel a bit special now!

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European Parliament non legislative motion on Bangladesh

The European Parliament takes a tougher view on tariffs than the G8 - and it is the European Commission who set tariffs. Clauses 5 & 6 mention labout conditions among plenty of other clauses about other issues I had never heard of!

Joint motion for a resolution on labour conditions and health and safety standards following the recent factory fires and building collapse in Bangladesh - RC-B7-0223/2013http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2F%2FEP%2F%2FTEXT+MOTION+P7-RC-2013-0223+0+DOC+XML+V0%2F%2FEN–   having regard to its resolutions of 25 November 2010 on human rights and social and environmental standards in international trade agreements(4) and on corporate social…

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/05/15/topshop-signs-bangladesh-factory-agreement

http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2013/05/15/topshop-signs-bangladesh-factory-agreement

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