economic grouping in a sentence

Examples

1. Mandela is chairman of the Southern African Development Community, a mainly economic grouping of 14 countries dominated by South Africa.
2. ASEAN is a regional economic grouping of seven nations that includes Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, The Philippines, Brunei and Vietnam.
3. Ecomog has been approved and authorized by West Africa's chief political and economic grouping, the Economic Community of West African States.
4. He said the members have pledged their support towards such measures while the chamber itself garnered support from other economic groupings.
5. Cambodia has been expected to accompany fellow ASEAN observers Burma and Laos in fully joining the regional economic grouping in July.
6. But Mineta also acknowledged it must balance that push with the requirements of liberal trade that economic groupings like APEC require.
7. A similar debate is going on in Asia with its new economic grouping, called APEC for " Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ."
8. ASEAN is a regional security and economic grouping that consists of Brunei, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
9. Malaysia and Thailand belong to the economic grouping along with Indonesia and the Philippines, whose leaders have also expressed open support for Anwar.
10. Leaders have given themselves 20 years to create an umbrella trade region to replace regional economic groupings and compete with other world trade blocs.