Industry groups: WTO e-commerce JSI needs lasting moratorium

To ensure that plurilateral e-commerce talks at the World Trade Organization are “commercially meaningful,” the U.S. should insist on a permanent moratorium on electronic transmissions duties as well as a roadmap for future talks on data flows, data localization and source code provisions, a collection of 20 industry groups said this week. The co-conveners of the plurilateral e-commerce negotiations, known as a joint statement initiative, announced a “substantial conclusion” of the talks last December with the goal of finalizing an...