A group of 71 WTO members agreed at the 11th Ministerial Conference in December 2017 to initiate exploratory work towards future WTO negotiations on trade-related aspects of e-commerce. In January 2019, 76 WTO members confirmed in a joint statement their intention to commence these negotiations. They agreed to “seek to achieve a high standard outcome that builds on existing WTO agreements and frameworks with the participation of as many WTO members as possible”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Joint Statement on Electronic Commerce of December 2017 is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More information in this Joint Initiative on the WTO website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find the List of Proposals and Communications<\/a> by all WTO Members participating to the negotiations here (as of 24 August 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find various positions of the European Services Forum and of the Global Services Coalition here below or in the Positions Papers section<\/a> of this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n