The name is absent

Name    (date

formed)

Description

Membership

ACP

Group of 77 African,
Caribbean and Pacific
countries (56 WTO
members)       with

preferential trading
relations with the EU

Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin,
Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican
Republic, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea,
Rwanda, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the
Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South
Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad and
Tobago, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

African Group

Holds joint positions in
many      negotiating

issues.

All African Union countries who are also WTO members,
currently 41 countries.

Cairns Group
(1986)

Group of agricultural
exporting      nations

lobbying            for

agricultural       trade

liberalization.

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand,
Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand and
Uruguay.

C-4 (2003)

“Cotton Four” group of
countries with specific
interest in cotton

Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali.

FIPs (2004)

Five interested parties

Australia, Brazil, EU, India, USA

FIPs plus (2005)

FIPs plus friends

FIPs plus Argentina, Canada, China, Japan, New Zealand,
Switzerland.

G-4 (2005)

FIPs less Australia

G-4 plus Japan
(2005)

G-4 plus Japan

G-6 (2005)

FIPs plus Japan

G-10 (2003)

Importers.        Multi-
functionality          of

agriculture and need
for high levels of
domestic support and
protection

Chinese Taipei, Rep of Korea, Iceland, Israel, Japan,
Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Norway and Switzerland.

G-11 (2005)

Full liberalization in
tropical products

Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Nicaragua, and
Venezuela.

G-20 (2003)

Elimination of export
subsidies         and

domestic support and
liberalization of market
access in agriculture

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Egypt,
Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Paraguay, Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Tanzania,
Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.

G-33 (2003)

Developing country
importers.
Differentiated
treatment           of

developing countries
on basis of food
security, sustainable
livelihoods and rural
development needs -
Special Products and
Special     Safeguard

Mechanisms
(SP/SSM)

Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana,
China, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, DAntigua and Barbuda,
Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, China, Congo, Côte
d’Ivoire, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Rep. Korea,
Mauritius, Madagascar, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, St Kitts and
Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri
Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey,
Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.