AAFTA Association of American Free Trade Agreements
Free Trade expansion in The Americas, launched 2007

read: Former U.S. Trade Official Urges Expanded Free Trade

ABCDE Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics
Academic World Bank meeting
meetings: Bangalore 2003 Oslo 2002 Barcelona 2001(cancelled)

ACP
71 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, mostly ex-colonies of European countries.

ADB Asian Development Bank
part of the World Bank Group for Asia
ADB Meetings: Hawaii 2001 | Thailand 2000

AFTA Asian Free Trade Agreement
Agreement failed in October 2000, should give Australian and New Zealand firms a considerable competitive advantage in the ASEAN markets.

Africa Bill
a NAFTA-like free trade agreement between the US and Subsaharan Africa; big oil and mineral combines are promoting the Africa Recolonization Act, NAFTA for Africa, and thereby threatening African civil society with their neo-liberal, 'free trade' agenda.

Andean FTA read: Andean Free Trade Agreement

AoA Agreement on Agriculture
The WTO's Agreement pits small farms against larger, more 'efficient' agribusinesses in both the North and the South, with disastrous consequences for small-scale agriculture and rural communities.

APEC Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(member states: australia, brunei, canada, chile, china, indonesia, japan, malaysia, mexico, new zeeland, papua-newguinea, philippines, singapore, south korea, taiwan, thailand, usa)

http://www.apecsec.org.sg
APEC Summits: 1996 - 2004 - 2007

ASEAN Association of South East Asian Nation
established 1967

http://www.asean.or.id

ASEM Asia Europe Meeting
Annual meeting of the heads of state from the European Union and the 10 Asian member states, the ASEM is being used, particularly by the EU, to promote neoliberal globalisation. A number of steps are being taken by the EU to promote the interests of European TNC's.

read: Asia-Europe Business Forum