At the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference, India and South Africa objected to the incorporation of the plurilateral Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement (IFDA) into Annex 4 of the WTO Agreement. Given that Article X.9 of the WTO Agreement requires “| tradenotes.substack.com
In honour of the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference happening this week - and the attention on what will happen to the moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions - this post looks at an interesting record from the Clinton Administration in 1998 when the moratorium was born (which I highlighted| tradenotes.substack.com
I had been holding off on posting anything on the leaked AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol as I wasn’t clear it represented the actually final version.| tradenotes.substack.com
Peter Ungphakorn has reported a small bit of good news in the world of WTO plurilaterals - with South Africa withdrawing its objections to 54 WTO Members implementing the Services Domestic Regulation Joint Initiative (Services DR JI).| tradenotes.substack.com
This week saw some good and bad news for the WTO Joint Initiative on Electronic Commerce, which also has potential implications for IPEF.| tradenotes.substack.com
The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) between Chile, New Zealand and Singapore, was recently amended in preparation for Korea’s accession.| tradenotes.substack.com
