Global finance leaders gather today in Washington, D.C., for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging Chinese economy and worries that a coin-toss U.S. presidential election could ignite new trade battles and erode multilateral cooperation.

Global finance leaders are in D.C. this week for the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, meaning that there will be street closures and parking restrictions.

Global finance leaders are facing a major uncertainty as they meet in Washington next week: Who will win the U.S. presidential election and shape the policies of the world’s biggest economy?

The elephant in the room will be the potential for an election victory by Donald Trump to upend the international economic system with massive new US tariffs.