Opening the Group of 20 meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping appealed on Sunday for governments to resist pressure to raise trade barriers. Opening the Group of 20 meeting, Chinese President Xi Jinping appealed on Sunday for governments to resist pressure to raise trade barriers. Governments should “avoid taking new protectionist measures” and “take effective action to promote trade growth”, Xi said. Xi called for innovation to spur growth and reforms to global financial and economic management. “Free trade must be fair trade,” Juncker said at a news conference with Donald Tusk, president of the European Council.

Source: Mint September 05, 2016 03:22 UTC