E-commerce has revolutionized global retail, offering both opportunities and challenges for businesses and consumers alike. However, the increasing volume of direct-to-consumer imports within the European Union (EU) has highlighted significant legal, environmental, and market fairness challenges. To address these concerns, the…
Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce: a new era in global digital trade
by Fanni Fürjes At the 11th Ministerial Conference in December 2017, a group of 71 World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed to initiate exploratory work towards future WTO negotiations on trade-related aspects of e-commerce. After almost seven years of negotiations on…