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The minor rules shaping the development impacts of digital marketplaces.

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”

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…