http://www.iccwbo.org/collection23/folder58/index.html?Title=ICC's Commission on Trade and Investment/policy/trade/index.html?id=37731The world’s leaders are at an important crossroads as they tackle the question of how to press forward following the worst recession in decades, according to experts at the ICC World Business Summit, organized by ICC and Hong Kong Trade Development Council in Hong Kong today. ICCWed, 30 Jun 2010 11:24:53 GMT/policy/law/index.html?id=37694Continuing a long tradition of providing the global trading community with the most up-to-date trade tools, ICC is preparing to launch the Incoterms® 2010 rules. Today, ICC has announced it is now accepting preorders for the revised Incoterms rules, which will come into effect on 1 January 2011. ICCMon, 28 Jun 2010 18:23:27 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=37690Despite repeated commitments by G-20 countries to avoid adopting such measures, protectionist policies are being implemented at an alarming rate, according to a new research report, “G-20 Protection in the Wake of the Great Recession”.ICCMon, 28 Jun 2010 17:40:36 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=37674ICC, which believes that trade has a vital role to play in the global economic recovery, is disappointed by the Toronto G20 Summit’s inadequate approaches to two key trade issues: trade finance and the Doha Round of trade negotiations.ICCMon, 28 Jun 2010 14:45:26 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=36608Public deficits, a decrease in tax revenues and schemes to reduce government deficits and debt accumulation, could be detrimental to the strength and durability of the economic recovery, according to the quarterly ICC/Ifo World Economic Survey released today. ICCWed, 19 May 2010 12:12:07 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=35668As it emerges from a deep recession, the US must reject protectionism and economic nationalism, and champion foreign investment as a key driver of prosperity, a top US State Department official told a conference organized by ICC’s representative in the US. ICCThu, 01 Apr 2010 16:54:46 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=34966The World Economic Climate Indicator rose in the first quarter of the year for the fourth consecutive time due primarily to positive assessments of the current economic situation in Asia, but the expectation of a continued rise in unemployment, and other factors, raised concerns about the strength of the recovery.ICCWed, 17 Feb 2010 11:18:40 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=33761ICC Chairman Victor K. Fung today expressed concern over the sustainability of the current economic recovery and warned against an increase in protectionist moves that he said will only prolong the current downturn.ICCFri, 13 Nov 2009 10:13:12 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=33095The ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy, holding its biannual meeting in Geneva this week, heard from selected chairmen of the Doha Round negotiating groups to discuss the latest status of the negotiations, notably in the fields of rules, services and trade facilitation. ICCFri, 02 Oct 2009 17:28:05 GMT/policy/trade/index.html?id=33044There is much to applaud in the communiqué from the Pittsburgh G20 Summit pledging to revive global trade, reject protectionism, boost trade finance, and refrain from imposing new barriers to investment on trade in goods and services.ICCTue, 29 Sep 2009 11:26:39 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=31636ICC welcomes the pledge by leaders of the G8 countries to conclude the Doha Round of trade negotiations in 2010.ICCFri, 10 Jul 2009 17:41:08 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=31590ICC Chairman Victor K. Fung and other international business leaders gathered in the Chinese capital have released a statement urging governments to reject trade and investment protectionism and to promote greater global cooperation especially among political leaders of the major economies. ICCWed, 08 Jul 2009 17:28:54 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=31444ICC Chairman Victor Fung told a group of high-level international business leaders and government officials today that governments must avoid the temptation to seek isolation from the global recession through protectionist measures to restrict imports and foreign investment.ICCFri, 03 Jul 2009 14:02:15 GMT /index.html?id=30712The G8 summit should resist pressures to resort to economic nationalism and should further strengthen international cooperation to meet the challenges posed by the global recession, climate change and product counterfeiting, ICC urged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today.ICCFri, 12 Jun 2009 12:01:43 GMT /index.html?id=28806ICC today congratulated the G20 leaders for taking a multilateral approach to resolving the world economic crisis. In particular, ICC applauded their agreement to kick-start trade by significantly increasing trade finance, rapidly concluding the Doha Round of trade negotiations, and strengthening promises to avoid protectionist measures. ICCThu, 02 Apr 2009 19:03:48 GMT /policy/banking/index.html?id=28678Leaders of the G20 countries must coordinate their national policies to end the global recession support a monitoring system to honour previous promises to reject protectionism, and restore trade financing to more normal levels, ICC said today.ICCTue, 31 Mar 2009 10:35:02 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=28170The upcoming G20 Summit in London should strongly reject growing protectionist pressures and increase multilateral cooperation to resolve the global financial crisis, ICC Chairman Victor K. Fung told British Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday.ICCThu, 12 Mar 2009 17:45:33 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=28150ICC Chairman Victor K. Fung called on world leaders to clearly reject all protectionist pressures at the upcoming G20 summit in London.ICCWed, 11 Mar 2009 17:20:38 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=27088Jukka Seppälä has been appointed Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy. As an officer of the commission, Mr Seppälä joins commission Vice-Chair Geoffrey Gamble and commission Chair Rajya V. Kanoria.ICCTue, 10 Feb 2009 17:21:23 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=26862Over 270 business leaders converge in Geneva today to celebrate the International Chamber of Commerce’s 90th anniversary, which will be highlighted by the launch of the ICC Research Foundation. ICCMon, 02 Feb 2009 11:20:06 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=26708Geoffrey Gamble has been appointed Vice-Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy. As an officer of the commission, Mr Gamble joins Rajya V. Kanoria, Chairman and Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries and President of ICC India, who was appointed Chair in October 2008.ICCMon, 26 Jan 2009 17:42:50 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=26198Yet again, ICC must register its disappointment and concern that publicly-stated goals for the Doha Round trade negotiations agreed by countries at heads of government level fail to be translated into reality. ICCWed, 17 Dec 2008 10:00:11 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=25278Rajya V. Kanoria, Chairman and Managing Director of Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd. and President of ICC India, has been appointed Chair of the ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy, ICC’s main working body on multilateral trade and investment policy issues.ICCFri, 31 Oct 2008 15:46:11 GMT /policy/trade/index.html?id=24238ICC coorganized a successful panel session together with the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) on the occasion of the 2008 WTO Public Forum, held at World Trade Organization headquarters in Geneva on 24-25 September 2008.ICCTue, 30 Sep 2008 10:26:10 GMT /policy/trade/id22038/index.htmlICC participated in hearings on the review of the Monterrey Consensus on Financing for Development on 18 June at the UN headquarters in New York.ICCFri, 27 Jun 2008 12:30:39 GMT