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>The mandate of the Commission on Trade and Investment Policy is to break down barriers to international trade and investment so that all countries can benefit from improved living standards through increased trade and investment flows.

ICC Chairman addresses major Chinese economic conference

Beijing, 3 July 2009

ICC 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.

ICC calls on G8 to avoid economic nationalism
Rome, 12 June 2009 The 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.

ICC welcomes G20 boost to trade finance and pledge to conclude Doha Round
Paris, 2 April 2009 ICC 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.

G20 must take action to fight protectionism and support trade finance to keep trade flowing
Paris, 31 March 2009 Leaders 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.

ICC Chairman Victor Fung meets Gordon Brown ahead of G20 Summit
London, 12 March 2009 The 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.

ICC Chairman calls on G20 to reject protectionism
London, 11 March 2009 ICC Chairman Victor K. Fung called on world leaders to clearly reject all protectionist pressures at the upcoming G20 summit in London.

ICC Commission on Trade and Investment Policy appoints Vice-Chair
Paris, 10 February 2009 Jukka 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.

ICC kicks off 90th anniversary celebrations with launch of Research Foundation
Geneva, 2 February 2009 Over 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.