{"id":1000150,"date":"2026-03-31T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000150"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:09","slug":"wto-chief-hopes-members-will-restore-lapsed-ecommerce-duties-moratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/31\/wto-chief-hopes-members-will-restore-lapsed-ecommerce-duties-moratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"WTO chief hopes members will restore lapsed ecommerce duties moratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Trade Organization chief said she hopes countries will be able to restore \u200can \u2060ecommerce moratorium \u2060which lapsed during talks on Monday, enabling countries to be able to impose customs duties on electronic \u2060transmissions like \u200cdownloads and streaming. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means \u2060that if it lapses members can apply customs duties on electronic transmissions. But that takes time to set up \u200cand then we are able to restore it. And \u2060we hope to be able to do that,&#8221; WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Trade Organization chief said she hopes countries will be able to restore \u200can \u2060ecommerce moratorium \u2060which lapsed during talks on Monday, enabling countries to be able to impose customs duties on electronic \u2060transmissions like \u200cdownloads and streaming. &#8220;It means \u2060that if it lapses members can apply customs duties on electronic transmissions. But that takes time to set up \u200cand then we are able to restore it. And \u2060we hope to be able to do that,&#8221; WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}