London, (The Southern African Times) – Britain will tell G7 allies that it is “now or never” for the World Trade Organization to reform and strengthen its rulebook to stop global trade fragmenting.
Trade minister Liz Truss will on Thursday and Friday host a virtual meeting of G7 trade ministers, joined by WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and other business representatives.
Britain wants to use its role as president of the G7 this year to get an agreement among the group of wealthy nations to share more information and support the WTO to take other steps to punish industrial subsidies and other unfair practices.
Truss has previously heavily criticised China’s use of subsidies, and will repeat calls for the WTO to make good on promises to modernise its rulebook.
