The
past June 18, 2014, UNCTAD, WTO and OECD, have issued a joint report
about trade and investment measures referred by the G-20 at their
last summit meeting in St. Petersburg-Russia 5-6 September 2013,
where the leaders made a strong statement of commitment to free trade
and investment as a crucial element to restoring global growth. At
that meeting, mainly recognized the continuous risk of economic
slowdown and weakening of trade due to persistent protectionist
pressures worldwide, committing to roll back from that time. The
analysis reports that in this article we discuss cover trade and
investment elapsed between mid-November 2013 to mid May 2014 noting
that little have advanced in the commitment made at the meeting.
