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Item 4 – TRIPS Council Matters Mr Chair. Thank you, and my thanks too to my Norwegian colleague, the TRIPS Council Chair, for his report, and my thanks to the Director General for her leadership on this issue. And thanks also for the words of welcome to me and to the other WTO newbies, on our first appearance at the General Council. This is a really important issue. All the more so when, as others have said already this morning, so many countries around the world find themselves still in the full front of this pandemic. Our thoughts and prayers are particularly with our Indian friends and a...

Item 4 – TRIPS Council Matters Mr Chair. Thank you, and my thanks too to my Norwegian colleague, the TRIPS Council Chair, for his report, and my thanks to the Director General for her leadership on this issue. And thanks also for the words of welcome to me and to the other WTO newbies, on our first appearance at the General Council. This is a really important issue. All the more so when, as others have said already this morning, so many countries around the world find themselves still in the full front of this pandemic. Our thoughts and prayers are particularly with our Indian friends and a...

2 March 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Item 8 - Work Programme on Electronic Commerce and Moratorium on Imposing Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions - Request from India Thank you Chair, and with thanks to India for its statement I’d like to make three points: First, the United Kingdom is a strong supporter of the moratorium on imposing customs duties on electronic transmissions and we fully support making it permanent because the gains from trade and investment are so significant including for developing countries. Second, the United Kingdom welcomes th...

Item 8 - Work Programme on Electronic Commerce and Moratorium on Imposing Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions - Request from India Thank you...

Description For 22 years, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) have been discussing how to govern e-commerce and the data that underpins it. In 2019, some 74 (now 86) nations began to negotiate e-commerce. These talks are conducted in secret and little is known about how they are progressing. However, WTO members issued a wide range of public comments on both the Work Programme on Electronic Commerce and the Joint Statement Initiative on Electronic Commerce from 1998, when the work program began, to the present. These communications provide context, as well as a window into the n...