G7 communique unlikely due to lack of consensus - officials

LA MALBAIE, Quebec, June 8 (Reuters) - Leaders from the Group of Seven countries are highly unlikely to issue a final communique when a two-day summit in Canada ends on Saturday (Shenzhen: 002291.SZ - news) because of a lack of consensus among the group, who are deeply divided over trade issues.

Several G7 officials told Reuters that a communique - which must be agreed by the leaders of Canada, Britain, the United (Shenzhen: 000925.SZ - news) States, Germany, France, Japan and Italy - will be near impossible to achieve and Canada will issue a chair's summary of the meeting instead.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren and William James; Writing by Andrea Hopkins Editing by Susan Thomas)