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What’s in the WTO JSI “stabilised” text?
After four years of negotiations at the WTO, a “stabilised text” for the WTO Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce was released in July. This is a text now broadly agreed upon within negotiations, although there may be further minor adjustments to reach a final text. The JSI is one of the most important negotiations…
The minor rules shaping the development impacts of digital marketplaces.
As e-commerce and platform-based trading expand across the globe, one of the major developmental claims is that digital marketplace trading might unleash small firm creativity and profits. Selling online, even reaching lucrative foreign customers, has been a key ambition for many small firms and part of wider digital development policies. An important question for researchers…
The legality of plurilateral e-commerce agreements and its implications for “WTO2.0”
After a COVID-19 hiatus, we hope to resume publishing more regular articles on digital trade on this blog as discussions continue to expand. The WTO “Joint Statement Initiative on E-commerce” (E-commerce JSI) may not have been concluded or formalised during the bi-annual Ministerial Conference (MC12) in June, but it remains very much at the forefront…
Updates April: OECD Digital Tax | UN Digital Cooperation | Apple tracking rules
This update shines a light on the increasing patchwork of global forums and bodies looking to govern digital and data flows. Return of the US to global governance? OECD digital tax. Discussion about the global taxation of firms has become increasingly controversial. One aspect of this has been the digital economy. Given that it is…
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