Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific countries

Asian Clearing Union (integrated by Bangladesh, India, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka)

ASEAN free trade area (see ASEAN, below)

Asian monetary unit

Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations and Trade Agreement

Asian-Pacific Economic Union

Association of South East Asian Nations (integrated by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand)

Agreement of Textiles and Clothing

Central Bank of West African States (Banque centrale des états de l’Afrique de l’ouest). (The West African States are Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo.)

Bank of Central African States (Banque des états de l’Afrique centrale). (The Central African States are Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.)

Belgian-Luxembourg Economic Union

Central American Common Market (integrated by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua)

Central African Economic and Monetary Community

Common agricultural policy (of the EU)

Caribbean Common Market (integrated by Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago)

Economic Community of Central African States

Central European free trade area

Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (integrated by Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda)

Common effective preferential tariff of the ASEAN free trade zone

Common external tariff

Communauté financière africaine

Commonwealth of Independent States

Common monetary area (a single exchange control territory comprising Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland)

Caribbean Multilateral Clearing Facility

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Pacific (Angola, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)

Consumer price index

East African Cooperation

European Central Bank

Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

Eastern Caribbean Common Market

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean

Economic Community of West African States (CEDEAO) (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo)

European Coal and Steel Community

European currency unit

European economic area

European Free Trade Association

European monetary system

European Economic and Monetary Union

Exchange rate mechanism (of the EMS)

European Union (formerly European Community) (integrated by Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom)

Former Soviet Union

Gulf Cooperation Council (Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf) (Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates)

Generalized system of preferences

Latin American Integration Association (integrated by Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela)

Letter of credit

London interbank offered rate

Southern Cone Common Market (integrated by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay)

Multifiber Arrangement

Most favored nation

Ministry of Finance

North American Free Trade Agreement

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (integrated by Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines)

Open general license

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Preferential trade area for Eastern and Southern African states

Southern African Customs Union (integrated by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland)

Southern Africa Development Community (integrated by Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe)

Special drawing rights

Singapore interbank offered rate

South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement (signed by Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu)

Union of account of the PTA

Central African Customs and Economic Union

United Nations

National Union for the Total Independence of Angola

Value-added tax

West African Economic Community (CEAO) (dissolved)

West African Economic and Monetary Union (formerly WAMU, integrated by Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo)

West African Monetary Agency (formerly WACH)

World Trade Organization (supersedes GATT)