2021 G20 Rome summit

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2021 G20 Rome summit
16th G20 Summit
← 15th 30–31 October 2021 17th →
2021 G20 summit attendees
Host country Italy
MottoPeople, Planet, and Prosperity
Venue(s)EUR Convention Center
CitiesRome
ParticipantsG20 members
Invited States:
Brunei, D.R. Congo, Netherlands, Rwanda, Singapore, Spain
Invited bodies:
 United Nations
 WTO
 AU
International Labour Organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Financial Stability Board
World Health Organization
World Bank
ChairMario Draghi

The 2021 G20 Rome summit was the sixteenth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a Head of State and Government meeting held in Rome, the capital city of Italy. It was the first G20 summit hosted by the country.[1]

Participating leaders

Invited guests

Absent leaders

Five leaders did not attend the G20 summit. Of them, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin participated via video link; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who rarely leaves the country on foreign trips, sent his Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard on his behalf; and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa both skipped the summit due to elections being held in each respective nation.[2][3][4][5]

Outcomes

U.S. President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the G20 Rome summit, 31 October 2021

The Biden administration and the European Union reached an agreement on 30 October to roll back the steel and aluminium tariff regime that had been imposed by the Trump administration in 2018. The agreement retained some protection for American steel and aluminum producers by adopting a tariff-rate quota regime. It also ended retaliatory tariffs on American goods the EU had imposed and cancelled a scheduled tariff increase by the EU.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "G20 2021 Italy". 16 December 2020. Archived from the original on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ "G20 Italy: Which world leaders will be in Rome". Wanted in Rome. 27 October 2021.
  3. ^ "G20: World leaders agree to historic corporate tax deal". BBC News. 30 October 2021.
  4. ^ Balmer, Crispian (19 October 2021). "Four G20 leaders not expected at Rome summit -diplomats". Reuters. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Ramaphosa skips first face-to-face Covid-19 era G20 summit due to local government elections". www.iol.co.za. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  6. ^ Swanson, Ana; Rogers, Katie (30 October 2021). "U.S. Agrees to Roll Back European Steel and Aluminum Tariffs". The New York Times.
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