WTO sees slight deceleration in G20 trade restrictions
The Dollar Business Bureau The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) thirteenth trade monitoring report on G20 trade measures, issued on June 15, 2015, shows a slight deceleration in the application of new trade-restrictive measures by G20 economies, with the average number of such measures applied per month lower than at any time since 2013. Since mid-October 2014, 119 new trade-restrictive measures were put in place over the period — an average of 17 new measures per month. Also during this period, G-20 economies continued to adopt measures aimed at facilitating trade. The trend on these trade liberalizing measures remains stable with G-20 economies introducing some 112 new measures during the period under review — an average of 16 measures per month. Trade-restrictive ...
