Germany will press G20 members to sign off on a set of principles including free trade at this week’s meeting of the group’s financial leaders, in what the Trump administration may perceive as a challenge to its more protectionist stance. In an unusual move, Germany, the host of the meeting, will stress the importance of global free trade in a document separate from the group’s main communique, G20 sources said. The move underscores Germany’s desire
Germany to press G20 on free trade in potential challenge to Trump
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