WTO E-Commerce Tariff Moratorium at 25 - MALENA DAILEY EDWARD GRESSER

Technical debates over to the late 1990s — the era just after the launch copyright continue to animate thinkers and of the World Wide Web — and originates in lawyers in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, for prescient American thinking about the Internet’s P3 WTO E-COMMERCE TARIFF MORATORIUM AT 25 example; likewise, the U. [...] The smaller ones, with OF TRADE new access to low-cost email, data analytics, The picture of trading firms has also changed and social media, should be able to use digital noticeably and to the benefit of the smaller and technologies to (at least in part) compensate for less advantaged: digital technologies lower the this disadvantage. [...] Trade in Services, Table 3.1 In sum, the BEA’s first calculation of this sort of outpacing both goods (5.6%) and other service export came in 1999 — six years after the launch exports (4.2%).9 of the World Wide Web, and one year after the The U. [...] This would make So altogether the first quarter-century of the creator economy the fastest-growing sub- digital trade policy looks like a winner, whether industry within digital media.18 measured by the growth of trade value or by In 2024, the creator economy is largely kept the entries of small firms and individuals. [...] of the moratorium even before attempting to One of the Internet’s great successes of the past calculate the cost of levying these taxes to the 25 years — the ability of individuals with ideas to Indian government.