U.S. lays groundwork for push for permanent e-commerce moratorium at MC14

The U.S. is prioritizing a permanent e-commerce moratorium as it prepares for the World Trade Organization’s 14th ministerial conference next March, though heightened tariffs and trade tensions with India, Brazil and South Africa could stand in the way a deal, according to Geneva and U.S. industry sources. WTO members have renewed the moratorium on duties on electronic transmission at or before every ministerial conference since it was first agreed upon in 1998. But negotiations to do so have in recent...