The FINANCIAL — In a clear show of support for the multilateral trading system, global business representatives joined trade policymakers at the World Trade Organisation’s headquarters in Geneva to discuss future reform of the multilateral trading system.
Led by ICC Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, incoming ICC Chairman Paul Polman and new ICC Secretary General John W.H. Denton AO, business delegates discussed a range of ideas to enhance the contribution of global trade to inclusive growth and sustainable development as part of the WTO’s “Trade Dialogues” process – launched in 2016 with the support of ICC and the B20.
ICC, which represents over 6 million private sector members in more than 100 countries, is the world’s largest and most representative business organisation and served as the co-organiser of the Trade Dialogues event—a set of high-level discussions bringing business and government stakeholders together to share insights on the WTO agenda and the future of global trade, according to ICC.
At this year’s Trade Dialogues, ICC chaired discussions on e-commerce, trade and sustainable development, and investment facilitation. Following the WTO’s 11th ministerial conference in Buenos Aires last year, groups of the organisation’s members have banded together in ‘joint initiatives’ to further global rules on these and other topics.
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