The first day of discussions between the leaders of the world's 20 richest economies came to an end on Friday 7 July without agreement on the tone of their common communiqué, especially its trade section – with the USA making its green light conditional upon a strong text on overcapacity in the steel sector.
The leaders' sherpas were thus going to start a new evening of negotiations, having already talked until the small hours of Thursday night to Friday.
The previous day, the same...