Done well, Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs) of trade agreements can provide useful insights and help craft inclusive, sustainable trade policy. The recent SIA of the EFTA-Thailand trade agreement provides an opportunity to reflect on what works and what doesn’t.
This Blueprint shows that human rights-based impact assessments of trade agreements are feasible and constitute valuable tools for policy-making. Drawing on experience from previous trade agreements, it points to areas of concern from a right to health, Indigenous rights and gender equality perspective.