67 Erb Street West Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 6C2 www.cigionline.org Table of Contents vi About the Authors vi Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Executive Summary 1 Introduction 3 Why Focus on Public Communications at the WTO? 4 A Short History of the Work Program and the JSI 7 The Roots of the Digital Trade Divide: The Economic, Technological and Governance Context for the Work Program and the JSI 10 Me. [...] Most WTO members have for Trade in Services, the Council for Trade in lots of expertise governing goods and services and Goods, the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of reconciling national and international strategies Intellectual Property Rights and the Committee to govern these goods and services. [...] In August, Australia and development.17 The WTO Secretariat also organized Singapore signed a Digital Economy Agreement to a conference on the use of data in the digital “harness digital transformation and technology to economy in 2019.18 Finally, in 2019 and 2020, the expand trade and economic ties in our region.”25 WTO Secretariat sponsored two workshops on the effects of the customs moratorium. [...] For example, in 2018, India and Customs Duties South Africa asked members to consider the costs of the moratorium to the ability of these countries In 2020, the Tax Foundation examined whether to fund data-driven development.72 In 2019, India the firms that drive the data-driven economy and South Africa submitted a new paper arguing (those that create revenues and profits) were that the moratorium. [...] In contrast, Côte d’Ivoire and Colombia argued that The authors found that the members of the the negotiators should put the same emphasis WTO generally want to see a rules-based system on trade facilitation and capacity building to govern goods and services delivered online as they do on negotiating shared rules.
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