2021 G20 Rome summit
The 2021 G20 Rome summit was the sixteenth meeting of Group of Twenty (G20), which was held in Rome, the capital city of Italy, on 30–31 October 2021. Invited guests. Absent leaders. Five leaders did not attend the G20 summit. Of them, Chinese leader 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. Outcomes. The US Biden administration and the European Union reached agreement on 30 October to rollback the steel and aluminum 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.