ACP countries

ACP is a designation of the signatories of the Cotonou Agreement of 2000 that replaced the Lomé Convention in regulating trade and other relationships between the European Union and these signatories.

The letters represent African, Caribbean and Pacific which is where most of these nations are located.

The countries are:

Africa

• Angola
• Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi
• Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Côte d'Ivoire
• Djibouti
• Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia
• Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
• Kenya
• Lesotho, Liberia
• Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique
• Namibia, Niger, Nigeria
• Rwanda
• São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland
• Tanzania, Togo
• Uganda
• Zambia, Zimbabwe

Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas, Barbados, Belize
• Cuba
• Dominica, Dominican Republic
• Grenada, Guyana
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname
• Trinidad and Tobago

Pacific

• Cook Islands
• East Timor
• Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Nauru, Niue
• Palau, Papua New Guinea
• Samoa, Solomon Islands
• Tonga, Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

Special Designations

Annex VI of the agreement lists the following designations:

Least-developed ACP States

• Angola
• Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi
• Republic of Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoro Islands, Democratic Republic of Congo
• Djibouti
• Ethiopia, Eritrea
• Gambia, Guinea, Guinea (Bissau), Guinea (Equatorial)
• Haïti
• Kiribati
• Lesotho, Liberia
• Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Madagascar, Mozambique
• Niger
• Rwanda
• Samoa, Sâo Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan
• Tanzania, Tuvalu, Togo, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia

Landlocked ACP States

• Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi
• Central African Republic, Chad
• Ethiopia
• Lesotho
• Malawi, Mali
• Niger
• Rwanda
• Swaziland
• Uganda
• Zambia, Zimbabwe

Island ACP States

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas, Barbados
• Cape Verde, Comoros
• Dominica, Dominican Republic
• Fiji
• Grenada
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Kiribati
• Madagascar, Mauritius
• Papua New Guinea
• Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles Solomon Islands
• Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu
• Vanuatu