G-20 Members Implementing Fewer Trade Restrictions, WTO Says

Members of the G-20 coalition of major advanced and emerging economies have shown a slight slowdown in their use of trade-restrictive measures, the WTO said last week. However, the overall stock of such measures has risen by seven percent compared to the previous monitoring period, the global trade body said.

According to the WTO’s latest monitoring report, G-20 members have adopted an additional 119 trade-restrictive measures between mid-October 2014 and mid-May 2015, averaging at 17 per month. This average is lower than any time since 2013.