China, which took over the BRICS presidency this year, will host the Ninth BRICS Summit in September in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province.
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The 7th Meeting of the BRICS Trade Ministers is held in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 1, 2017 [Xinhua]
The BRICS ministers are looking at boosting cooperation of the bloc within the WTO and preparation for the 11th Ministerial Conference in December.
On Tuesday, Chinese Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan warned against trade favouritism.
“Safeguarding the multilateral trade system and rising against protectionism serve the common interests of emerging and developing economies,” Zhong said.
The zeal of protectionism pushed forth by Donald Trump’s electoral win has been a much-discussed topic at global economic summits including the G20 earlier this year.
“There will be no return to a world before globalization,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said earlier this year, adding:”Isolation, new nationalism and protectionism will not help us in this.”
There is growing fear that the Trump administration will undo much of the cooperation frameworks on trade and sustainable energy in place between G20 nations.
Tensions are rising over Trump’s plan to use a Cold War-era law to restrict steel imports for national security reasons.
Trump launched an investigation into the matter in April, in a move that diplomats and trade experts say risks undermining the global rules-based trading system and sparking retaliatory action around the world in products beyond steel.
Meanwhile, in Shanghai, the BRICS trade ministers meeting is focused on the issues of the electronic commerce, investments simplification and trade in services, according to the Chinese Commerce Minister.
China, which took over the BRICS presidency this year, will host the Ninth BRICS Summit in September in Xiamen, southeast China’s Fujian Province.
TBP and Agencies
