ISDS Case Map
digital economy | e-commerce
A US proposal for Mexico and Canada to vastly raise the value of online purchases that can be imported duty-free from stores like Amazon.com and eBay is emerging as a flashpoint in an upcoming renegotiation of the NAFTA trade deal.
The latest information is that the e-commerce chapter of RCEP will be far less ambitious, dealing mostly with familiar and uncontentious issues such as standards for electronic payments and signatures.
India must first secure its digital sovereignty before it can begin global trade talks.
The personal information of Canadians will be on the negotiating table when North American free trade talks.
RCEP stands to adversely affect nearly half of the world’s population on areas like access to knowledge and access to medicines. We would like to highlight five issues related to access to knowledge/cultural goods, based on the leaked IP chapter.
Control over data will yield tremendous influence and profit-making, experts say.
Source code disclosure ‘curb,’ a worry.
U.S. flooded wth comments ahead of renegotiation of trade deal.
The United States Trade Representative has opened a window for the TPP’s proponents to try to use NAFTA to establish at least some of the dangerous TPP’s so-called intellectual property (IP) rules.
India has so far rejected bids to include market access negotiations on e-commerce at multilateral level.
