The non-government group, the Pacific Network Against Globalisation, or PANG, says developing countries cannot afford the World Trade Organisation's trade facilitation agreement.
The agreement is one of the issues on the table at the WTO ministerial meeting now underway in Bali in Indonesia.
Another is the Least Developed Countries package, which promises improved access for exports from the LDC nations, of which there are several in the Pacific.
PANG's spokesperson, Adam Wolfenden, says island countries would struggle with the costs of the trade facilitation agreement's rationalisation of customs' systems.
"There's a lot of small islands countries, that, if they agree to a trade facilitation agreement they are going to have to find the money, take it from their very small budgets, to comply with the agreement, which will largely result in increased imports to the country, not necessarily increase exports from those Pacific Island countries to other markets."
Adam Wolfenden of the Pacific Network Against Globalisation
