World Trade Organization members participating in the plurilateral Joint Statement Initiative negotiations on e-commerce were taken by surprise yesterday by the United States’ announcement it with withdrawing its support for three core proposals – cross-border data flows, the location of computing facilities and source code, according to participants involved in the discussions.
At a meeting of the JSI on digital trade Wednesday, a US official announced that Washington is withdrawing the proposals on the three issues due to on public policy considerations as well as privacy grounds, said participants who asked not to be quoted.
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