2021 G20 Rome summit

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The 2021 G20 Rome summit was the sixteenth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a Head of State and Government meeting held in Rome, the capital city of Italy. It was the first G20 summit hosted by the country.^[1]

2021 G20 Rome summit 16th G20 Summit
← 15th 30–31 October 2021 17th →
2021 G20 summit attendees
Host country	Italy
Motto	People, Planet, and Prosperity
Cities	Rome
Venues	EUR Convention Center
Participants	G20 members Invited States: Brunei, D.R. Congo, Netherlands, Rwanda, Singapore, Spain Invited bodies: United Nations WTO AU International Labour Organization Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Financial Stability Board World Health Organization World Bank
Chair	Mario Draghi

Participating leaders

• 
   Argentina
  Alberto Fernández, President
• 
   Australia
  Scott Morrison, Prime Minister
• 
   Brazil
  Jair Bolsonaro, President
• 
  Canada
  Justin Trudeau,
  Prime Minister
• 
   China
  Wang Yi, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 
   France
  Emmanuel Macron, President
• 
   Germany
  Angela Merkel, Chancellor
• 
   India
  Narendra Modi, Prime Minister
• 
   Indonesia
  Joko Widodo, President
• 
   Italy
  Mario Draghi, Prime Minister (Host)
• 
   Japan
  Toshimitsu Motegi, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• 
   Mexico
  Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Affairs
• 
   South Korea
  Moon Jae-in, President
• 
   Russia
  Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance
• 
   Saudi Arabia
  Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 
   South Africa
  Naledi Pandor, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
• 
   Turkey
  Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President
• 
   United Kingdom
  Boris Johnson, Prime Minister
• 
   United States
  Joe Biden, President
• 
   European Union
  Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission
• 
   European Union
  Charles Michel, President of the European Council

Invited guests

• 
   Brunei
  Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan
  2021 Chairperson of Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• 
   Democratic Republic of the Congo
  Félix Tshisekedi, President
  2021 Chairperson of the African Union
• 
   Netherlands
  Mark Rutte, Prime Minister
• 
   Rwanda
  Paul Kagame, President, 2021 Chairperson of NEPAD
• 
   Singapore
  Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister
• 
   Spain
  Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister
  Permanent guest invitee

Absent leaders

Five leaders did not attend the G20 summit. Of them, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin participated via video link; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who rarely leaves the country on foreign trips, sent his Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard on his behalf; and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa both skipped the summit due to elections being held in each respective nation.^[2][3][4][5]

Outcomes

U.S. President Joe Biden and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the G20 Rome summit, 31 October 2021

The Biden administration and the European Union reached an agreement on 30 October to roll back the steel and aluminium tariff regime that had been imposed by the Trump administration in 2018. The agreement retained some protection for American steel and aluminum producers by adopting a tariff-rate quota regime. It also ended retaliatory tariffs on American goods the EU had imposed and cancelled a scheduled tariff increase by the EU.^[6]

See also

• 2020 G20 Riyadh summit
• List of G20 summits