Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

Asociación de Estados del Caribe

Association des Etats de la Caraibe

Established: By convention signed July 24, 1994, in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Purpose: To promote “economic integration, and the creation of an enhanced space of free trade and cooperation among the countries of the Caribbean … to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities arising from the globalization of the international economy and progressive liberalization of hemispheric trade relations.”

Headquarters: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Principal Organs: Heads of State/Government Meetings, Ministerial Council, Secretariat.

Web site: www.acs-aec.org

Secretary General: Luis Fernando Andrade Falla (Guatemala).

Membership (25): Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad ...