Digital Trade definition

Digital Trade means digitally enabled transactions of trade in goods and services that can either be digitally or physically delivered, and that involve natural and juridical persons;

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Digital Trade in this report means both U.S. domestic commerce and international trade in products and services delivered via the Internet. Digital trade has grown exponentially over the past two decades as part of the broader transformation in global economic activity associated with the Internet. In fact, the impact of the Internet on the global economy has been recognized as even more fundamental than that of the globalization of production and investment alone. 1 The Internet has changed—and continues to change— how people interact; how consumers shop; how products and services are designed, developed, marketed, and delivered; and how firms operate and interact with one another.2

Digital Trade means digital trade as defined in Article 1(g) of the Protocol;

Examples of Digital Trade in a sentence

• Digital Trade after the Conclusion of the Trade and before its closure.

• Within 75 days after the date of signature of this Agreement, the Negotiation Subcommittee shall commence negotiations on amendments to this Agreement, on a without prejudice basis, on areas including inter alia market access for goods and services, a complete Product Specific Rules Schedule, a Digital Trade Chapter, and a Government Procurement Chapter, to transform this Agreement into a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement.

• In particular, the Parties note the provisions benefitting consumers engaged in online commercial activities set out in Chapter 15 (Digital Trade), including Article 15.11 (Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Messages – Digital Trade) and Article 15.13 (Personal Information Protection – Digital Trade).

• The new Digital Trade chapter contains the strongest disciplines on digital trade of any international agreement, providing a firm foundation for the expansion of trade and investment in the innovative products and services where the United States has a competitive advantage.

• For the argument that Canada’s policy space has remained intact, see ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, ‘Learning about Digital Trade: Privacy and E-Commerce in CETA and TPP’, World Trade Review 18 (2019), s63–s84, at s78.

• The new Digital Trade chapter will: • Prohibit customs duties and other discriminatory measures from being applied to digital products distributed electronically (e-books, videos, music, software, games, etc.).

• How to Agree on WTO Rules for Digital Trade, Special Report (Waterloo, ON: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2021), at 8.

• Where such measures do not conform with the provisions of Chapters III (Trade in Services and Establishment) or Vter (Digital Trade), they shall not be used as a means of avoiding that Party’s commitments or obligations under Chapters III (Trade in Services and Establishment) or Vter (Digital Trade).

• For the purposes of Chapters 2 (Trade in Goods), 3 (Rules of Origin), 4 (Customs Procedures and Trade Facilitation), 6 (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures), 7 (Technical Barriers to Trade), and 9 (Digital Trade), Article XX of the GATT 1994 and its interpretative note are incorporated into and form part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis.

• For the purposes of Chapter 8 (Trade in Services) and its Annexes and Chapter 9 (Digital Trade) (39), Article XIV of the GATS, including its footnotes, is incorporated into and forms part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis.