Tag: G20
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Washington closes its G20 trade presidency with a 28-economy Milwaukee Framework on steel overcapacity, a blocked consensus statement and an open question about whether plurilateral coalitions can substitute for multilateral agreement MILWAUKEE, Oct. 6, 2026 The United States Trade Representative closed the books yesterday on a G20 trade ministerial that produced one durable institutional artifact,…
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Washington’s top trade negotiator says a handful of outstanding files are “quite difficult to resolve,” and rules out a return to zero tariffs, leaving Canadian exporters staring down a January deadline on autos and steel MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3, 2026 The most senior trade official in the Trump administration has publicly lowered expectations for a near…
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Ambassador Greer convenes G20 trade ministers in Milwaukee this week with an agenda built around forced labor, steel overcapacity and a rewrite of the most favored nation principle, testing whether Washington can turn a tariff program into a multilateral rulebook MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – Trade ministers from the world’s largest economies arrive in Wisconsin…
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Greer hosts the G20 trade ministers this week with conditional most favored nation treatment on the agenda, a steel overcapacity ministerial bolted to the front of it, and the memory of a finance track that could not agree a communique four weeks ago. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 28, 2026 – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer opens…
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Historic Milestone: Africa Hosts Global Trade Leadership The G20 Summit in Johannesburg represents a watershed moment for global trade governance. With Africa hosting the group for the first time, the summit has shifted the focus of international trade discourse toward issues that African nations have long advocated for but struggled to have centered in developed-economy-dominated…