What is the Cairns group?

originally created in the city of Cairns in the Australian region of the North Queensland, the Cairns Group is an international special interest group that focuses on the process of agriculture exports. More than nineteen countries are currently members of Cairns. In general, the Cairns Group met as a means of expressing opposition to unevenness that was perceived as an integral part of the practice of balancing production in the middle to the end of the 20th century.

The opening meeting for the Cairns group was called and launched by the Australian government. The idea of ​​the meeting was to build several southeastern Asian countries to work for common export procedures that seemed to prefer several selected countries over others. The Cairns group took place in August 1986, became functional entities, and also picked up several other countries. Over time, the organization has spread to Africa, South America and North America.

A number of countries that are not official members of the Cairns Group often send observers to the group's assembly. Organizations with similar objectives often find support for the Cairns Group, with a temporary alliance to be created to address a specific agricultural question in the country or area of ​​the world. The Cairns Group generally supports any effort to eliminate subsidies for exports and work for just access to the market for balance of agricultural goods, less protectionism for any country or group of countries.

Over the years, the Cairns Group has appeared as an organization that is able to cooperate with individual countries and world trade organizations on issues that affect agricultural comfort of the country, along with product export procedures. According to some sources, the Cairns group is attributed to the inclusion of agriculture on the Uruguay Agenda and any ratification of agriculture agreement.