Industry groups push for WTO e-commerce progress after text is issued

Following the circulation of a consolidated text last month, more than 70 industry groups from around the world are pushing for the further advancement of plurilateral e-commerce talks ahead of the next World Trade Organization ministerial conference. The international industry associations this week called on negotiators of the WTO Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce to secure an agreement that “can help realize the promise of cross-border access to technology and the trusted movement of data across regions,” as they...