|
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. |