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CARICOM Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname Protect the interest of those in the Caribbean Community and Common Market
The Cairns Group

Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, South Africa, Thailand and 10 others

 Eliminate Domestic Subsidies, Eliminate Export Subsidies and Reduction of Tarrifs
Food Importers Group Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Mauritius, Norway, Taiwan and Liechtenstein.

Maintain Import Tariffs to protect domestic industry and maintain export subsidies to prevent large increases in world price
G10 Bulgaria, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Republic of, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Norway, Switzerland, Chinese Taipei Protecting and advancing the agricultural interests of its members

G20

21 Relatively poor developing countries including Brazil, China and India.

EU and US Tariff cuts to aid export possibilities, scope to use own tariffs to protect development

G33

Lead by Indonesia and with 40 other countries

Promote the benefits of having exemptions for Special Products and of having the Special Safegaurd Mechanism
G90/ACP 64 Least Developed Countries including large parts of Africa, Carribean and the Pacific Nations Promote the benefits of having exemptions for Special Products and of having the Special Safeguard Mechanism
MERCOSUR Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia Protect the interests of all those in the Latin American Free Trade Agreement
RAMS Recent new member states including Albania, Croatia, Georgia, Jordan, Moldova and Oman Ensure new member states are treated fairly in the negotiations

 

 

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