Gafta operates a number of international committees in order to best represent our members' interests on the international stage:
- Global Trade Policy Committee (GTPC)
- Approved Registers Committee
- Joint Gafta-GPC Market Access Committee (Pulses)
Regional committees
- Black Sea committee
- China Trade Committee
- South East Asia and Pacific Committee
- Ukraine Trade committee
Ad hoc working groups include UK Malting Barley Working Group, UK Tariffs group, UK phytosanitary working group.
The UK malting barley working group decides the test method and testing time for germination of malting barley as required by UK contracts. It also considers quality trials and recommendations by NIAB and to consider contractual and legitimate matters affecting malting barley, and provides these decisions and recommendations to the UK Trade Committee. The UK tariffs and phytosanitary working groups are examining trade issues in relation to EU exit.