Executive Summary

This twenty-fourth WTO Trade Monitoring Report on G20 trade measures, covering the period between mid-May and mid-October 2020, was prepared against the dramatic backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the human, social and economic problems left in its wake. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, G20 economies have implemented several trade and trade-related policies specifically to cope with the crisis. This Report seeks to shed light on these policy developments in addition to regular trade measures monitored for the review period.