Brussels, 20/06/2014 (Agence Europe) - The world's top 20 economies established 112 new restrictive trade measures between mid-November 2013 and mid-May 2014 - compared with 116 in the previous sixth-month period, states the WTO in its latest sixth-monthly joint report with the OECD and UNCTAD on G20 trade and investment measures. The report was published on 18 June.
Over half the newly-adopted restrictive measures take the form of complaints lodged at the WTO (66), and nearly a quarter are...