US now for plurilateral agreement on e-commerce at WTO

After failing to get a desired period of extension on moratorium on taxation of cross border digital transmissions at the just concluded 14th Ministerial Conference of World Trade Organisation (WTO), the US has said it would now work towards a plurilateral e-commerce moratorium and invited its trading partners to join this initiative.

“If the WTO cannot achieve this commonsense aim, the US will work outside of the WTO with all interested partners to get it done. To that end, the US invites all trading partners to commit to a plurilateral, e-commerce moratorium agreement,” US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement