UN United Nations

UNDP United Nations Development Program
 

UNCTAD UN Conference on Trade And Development
increasingly used by OECD countries and business groupings as a forum for moving Third World countries in the direction of a friendlier position on investment deregulation.

http://www.unicc.org/unctad/

UNCITRAL UN Commission for International Trade Law

UN summit "financing of development"
recent meeting: Monterrey March 2002

UNICE European employers' organization
tends to play a more reactive role than the ERT, generally responding to specific EU policies as they emerge

Uruguay-Round
recent GATT-negotiation round (1986-93) which lead to the foundation of the WTO

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USCIB US Council for International Business
Founded in 1945 "to promote an open system of world trade, investment and finance", it counts over 300 corporations, industry lobby groups, law firms and banks among its membership — including the American Petroleum Institute, BP America, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Dupont, General Electric, General Motors, the Global Climate Coalition, Honeywell, Ford, McDonalds, Mobil, Monsanto, Nestle USA, Philip Morris, Shell, Texaco and Unilever. The USCIB is the US affiliate of the ICC and the IOE, and most significantly, chairs the expert group of the BIAC