Trade bloc

  • 2.1 Europe
  • 2.2 Africa
  • 2.3 America
  • 2.4 Asia and Oceania

Global reference

All countries

  • BIS: Bank for International Settlements " bank for central banks "
  • IEA: International Energy Agency
  • ILO / ILO: International Labour Organization
  • IMF: International Monetary Fund
  • World Bank
  • WTO: World Trade Organization and its agreements: GATT: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GATS: General Agreement on Trade in Services
  • TRIPS: Agreement on Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Groups of countries

Industrialized countries

  • G8: Group of Eight Regular consultation with the Heads of State or Government of the seven major industrialized countries ( G7 plus Russia)
  • OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Developing and emerging countries

  • ACP: Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States States that have completed the Lomé Agreement with the European Union
  • G20: Group of Twenty Loose group of (originally ) 20 developing and emerging countries, articulate in the context of the negotiations of the World Trade Organization against the interests of the industrialized countries

Other groups of countries

  • G20: Group of twenty major industrial and emerging countries
  • OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • ICCO: International Cocoa Organization
  • BRICS: BRICS

Regional relations

Europe

  • CEFTA Central European Free Trade Agreement Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo
  • EAEC: Eurasian Economic Community member states: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan
  • EBRD: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • EFTA: European Free Trade Association Member States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland
  • EPO: European Patent Organisation of the EU and Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland and Turkey Member States
  • EU: European Union Worked: (European Economic Community ( EEC) earlier) dissolved and 2009 in the EU: EC European Community
  • EAEC or EURATOM European Atomic Energy Community
  • Or ECSC ECSC: European Coal and Steel Community in 2002 expired and gone up in the EC

Africa

  • CEMAC: Central African Economic and Monetary Union
  • CEN - SAD: Community of Sahel - Saharan States
  • COMESA: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
  • EAC: East African Community
  • ECA: UN Economic Commission for Africa
  • ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African
  • SACU: Southern African Customs Union
  • SADC: Southern African Development Community
  • WAEMU: West African Economic and Monetary Union

America

  • ALBA: Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas
  • ALCA or FTAA: Free Trade Area of the Americas, scheduled pan-American free trade zone
  • CAN: Andean Community
  • CARICOM: Caribbean Community, merger of 15 Caribbean countries
  • CEPAL or ECLAC: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Mercosur or Mercosul: Common Market of the South
  • NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement
  • UNASUR: Union of South American Nations

Asia and Oceania

  • APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation loose cooperation of Asian, Oceanic and American countries bordering the Pacific Ocean with the long-term aim of forming a free trade area
  • ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations Community South-East Asian countries that are currently negotiating a free trade zone
  • EAEC: Eurasian Economic Community
  • ECO: Economic Cooperation Organization Member States: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • ESCAP: UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
  • ESCWA: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
  • GCC: Gulf Cooperation Council

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