Pre-Toronto G20 report launched at Washington International Trade Association meeting

 On  June 23 2010 the sixth report of the Global Trade Alert was launched at the Washington International Trade Association (WITA). The report was prepared in advance of the G-20 summit in Toronto and includes:

• an assessment of trade policy measures taken since the Pittsburgh summit
• a G-20 country-by-G-20 country overview of state measures taken by a government and against its commercial interests by other governments.
• identification of 22 systemic--or "jumbo"--state measures that have each affected more than US$10 billion.
• discussion of the implication of these findings for future G-20 initiatives on trade policy.

The full text of this report should be available on this website later today. An executive summary can be found at a voxEU column on www.voxEU.org
For further details please contact either Simon Evenett (simon.evenett@gmail.com) or Viv Davies (vdavies@cepr.org)