[Air-L] WEBCAST MAR 19 – The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of its 13th Ministerial Conference

[Joly MacFie]

Underway. Real time text https://bit.ly/3TgmEF2  I was a little late
joining and will get the full recording for the archive.

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On *Tuesday March 19, 2024*, at* 11:00-12:30 EDT* (15:00-16:30 UTC),
the *Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information
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as part of its *Global Digital Governance series
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presents a webinar '*The WTO’s Digital Trade Negotiations in the Wake of
its 13th Ministerial Conference
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'.

The World Trade Organization is struggling to respond to the proliferation
of national restrictions and trade barriers in the global digital economy.
The largely failed *13th Ministerial Conference
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that
concluded on March 2, 2024 barely managed in its last hour to extend the
moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions until 2026. The
90-member Joint Service Initiative launched in 2017 has been unable to
finalize a negotiating text even after dropping or indefinitely pausing
work on its most important but contentious issues. These include: barriers
to cross-border data flows, forced data localization, forced disclosure of
source code, the non-discriminatory treatment of digital products, and
online platforms, among others. A key factor in this downsizing of
ambitions was the US government’s extremely contentious October 2023
decision to reverse its longstanding push for strong disciplines on such
items. If the negotiations ultimately produce a result, it may be more the
kind of minimalist trade facilitation agreement favored by China rather
than the sort of ambitious liberalization deal previously championed by the
United States.

What are the prospects for global digital trade negotiations in the years
ahead? What would a minimalist outcome mean for the growth of territorial
borders on global flows, and Internet fragmentation? Would the sidelining
of inclusive multilateral institutions further strengthen the trend toward
a spaghetti bowl of varying minilateral trade deals that exclude much of
the developing world? Is a sharper geopolitical clash between diverging
models of digital capitalism becoming likely?

This webinar assembles a panel of leading experts on global digital trade
policy to consider these and other questions. As always, the panelists’
conversation will be followed by an open dialogue among all webinar
participants.

The session is simulcast live under the auspices of the *Internet Society
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*INTRODUCTION*
*Eli Noam*, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia
Business School.

*PANEL*
*Mira Burri* - Professor of International Economic and Internet Law,
Faculty of Law, University of Lucerne
*Anupam Chander* - Scott K. Ginsburg, Professor of Law and Technology,
Georgetown Law School
*Martina F. Ferracane* - Research Fellow, European University Institute /
Academic manager, Digital Trade Integration Project

*MODERATOR*
*William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies, Columbia Institute
for Tele-Information

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