G7 PERFORMANCE ON TRADE 1975-2025
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70%. This is below the G7’s overall 78% compliance on all subjects. Trade com- pliance averaged 100% for 2000, 2020 and 2022. The next highest compliance came from 2001, 2023 and 2024 with 94% each, then 89% from 2004 and 2010, and 88% from 2017 and 2021. From 2004 to 2024 compliance aver- aged 78%, compared with only 52% from 1975 to 2003. By December 2025, compliance with the one trade commitment assessed from the Kananaskis Summit – to estab- lish standards-based markets for critical minerals supply chains – was only 25%. RECOMMENDATIONS From 2020 to 2024, compliance on trade averaged 96% and was accompanied by an increase in the percentage of trade conclusions. Since 1975, the six summits with the highest compliance came among the summits that averaged 22 commitments per summit, or more than double the average of 10 trade commitments per summit since 1975. The G7’s trade agenda has expanded since 2020 to include trade’s link to supply chains, climate change, critical
To produce outcomes through rule making, the G7 could coordinate back- ing for an e-commerce agreement and an environmental goods and services deal while pushing for a permanent moratorium on customs duties on elec- tronic transmissions. The G7 should upgrade existing supply chain resilience initiatives into operational systems for data sharing about disruptions and coordinat- ing response protocols such as export restrictions or emergency sourcing. This could include a continued focus on critical minerals, semiconductors or food systems. The G7 should establish a common framework on economic security and broker more comprehensive agreements in light of the lack of solidarity among the international community in their approach to export controls and prin- ciples for trade-restrictive tools, while supporting open trade. The G7 should expand aid-for-trade initiatives such as digital customs stand- ards and green exports. It should also prioritise partnerships with African economies and Indo-Pacific partners and support WTO accession pathways.
minerals and security. Trade commit- ments explicitly related to these issues have achieved higher compliance than the others in the trade sector. Com- mitments that refer to the World Trade Organization average 79% compliance. To avoid merely repeating the same trade commitments and to promote leadership, the G7 and its trade min- isters should put forward a roadmap on WTO reform for the next two years, with a concrete plan to restore the dis- pute settlement mechanism and create drafts on industrial subsidies and state- owned enterprises ahead of the next WTO ministerial meeting in 2028. “The G7 should establish a common framework on economic security and broker more comprehensive agreements in light of the lack of solidarity among the international community”
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