The following is excerpted from a 1 October 2013 article by the International Chamber of Commerce.
The recent focus on what divides world leaders, from Syria to the euro zone, has obscured the significant agreements reached at the Group of 20 meeting in St. Petersburg last month. One of the most important was support for free trade and opposition to protectionism.
We can now build on this momentum, as well as other trade liberalization efforts, to achieve meaningful progress at the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Bali in December.
This article is available in its entirety at:
http://www.iccwbo.org/News/Articles/2013/Reuters-publishes-ICC-op-ed-on-free-trade-and-the-G20/