On 20 August, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized an internal briefing on the U.S. trade policy and global trade order. Xiankun LU, CEO of FMG moderated this session.

 

At the meeting, Maria Pagan, former Ambassador of the U.S. to the WTO briefed the participants on her recent article “Reflections on the angels on the head of Jamieson Greer’s pin” (https://www.hinrichfoundation.com/research/article/trade-policy/reflections-on-the-angels-on-the-head-of-jamieson-greer-s-pin/) and shared her insights on the U.S. trade policies, their impact on the WTO and future trading system. Then the participants had a discussion.

 

25 FMG members attended this session.

 

Annex: List of Participants

1.Xiankun Lu

2.Jonathan Fried

3.Alejandro Jara

4.Fernando De Mateo

5.Simon Evenett

6.Hamid Mamdouh

7.Sherry Stephenson

8.Bernard Hoekman

9.Maxim Medvedkov

10.Mario Matus

11.Willy Alfaro

12.Stuart Harbinson

13.Henry Gao

14.Bob Koopman

15.Ignacio Garcia Bercero

16.Hector Torres

17.Petros C. Mavroidis

18.Hilda Al-Hinai

19.Gabrielle Marceau

20.Jayashree Watal

21.Mohammad Saeed

22.Rosine Plank

23.Rajesh Aggarwal

24.Brad McDonald

25.André Sapir