Publication

This report summarizes conference proceedings on the issue of multilateral trade. Participants in the conference were asked to think about the principles, rules and structures underlying the multilateral trade system and how it might be reshaped to meet the needs of today's highly integrated globalized world economy. Issues considered included the looming complications for trade rules posed by climate change, energy and food security concerns, higher transportation costs, trade and security issues, the widening income gaps between the world’s rich and its poor and emerging financial system vulnerabilities.