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Les promesses des technologies au service du commerce
Les promesses des technologies au service du commerce – l'ensemble de technologies grâce auxquelles le commerce mondial peut devenir plus efficace plus inclusif et plus durable – sont nombreuses depuis la facilitation des échanges jusqu'aux gains d'efficacité et à la réduction des coûts en passant par l'amélioration de la transparence et de la résilience des chaînes d'approvisionnement. Certes l'innovation technologique existe mais le plus grand défi en ce qui concerne l'adoption des technologies au service du commerce à l'échelle mondiale consistera à mettre en place une coordination internationale des politiques. Les accords commerciaux peuvent jouer un rôle primordial. En dépit des efforts actuels en vue d'introduire des dispositions relatives au commerce numérique il subsiste nombre de possibilités inexploitées et de politiques inexplorées. Cette publication conjointe du Forum économique mondial et de l'OMC examine de quelle façon les accords commerciaux pourraient être mobilisés pour faire progresser l'adoption des technologies numériques et la numérisation du commerce.
La promesa de la tecnología comercial
La tecnología comercial —el conjunto de tecnologías que permiten que el comercio mundial sea cada vez más eficiente inclusivo y sostenible— abarca múltiples aspectos desde la facilitación del comercio hasta el aumento de la eficiencia y la reducción de los costos así como la mayor transparencia y resiliencia de las cadenas de suministro. Aunque la innovación tecnológica existe el principal desafío que afronta la adopción mundial de la tecnología comercial será instaurar mecanismos para coordinar las políticas en el plano internacional. Y ahí es donde los acuerdos comerciales pueden desempeñar un papel fundamental. A pesar de los esfuerzos que se están realizando para introducir disposiciones sobre comercio digital en los acuerdos comerciales sigue habiendo muchas oportunidades desaprovechadas y políticas no exploradas. En esta publicación conjunta del Foro Económico Mundial y de la OMC se analiza la forma en que podrían aprovecharse los acuerdos comerciales para impulsar la adopción de tecnologías digitales y la digitalización del comercio.
The promise of TradeTech
TradeTech – the set of technologies that enables global trade to become more efficient inclusive and sustainable – is multifaceted from trade facilitation to efficiency gains and reduced costs to greater transparency and resilience of supply chains. Although technological innovation exists the major challenge to the global adoption of TradeTech will be building international policy coordination. Trade agreements can play a key role. Despite ongoing efforts to introduce digital trade provisions in trade agreements many unseized opportunities and unexplored policies remain. This joint World Economic Forum and WTO publication explores how trade agreements could be leveraged to advance the adoption of digital technologies and trade digitalization.
Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.
World Tariff Profiles 2013
World Tariff Profiles 2013 — a joint publication of the WTO the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) — provides comprehensive tariff information on all WTO members and a number of other countries where data is available. It is the only compilation of tariff information of its kind available to researchers and negotiators. The publication summarizes the market access that each country offers to imports as well as the market access conditions faced by its products in its major export markets. The profiles show both the maximum tariff rates that are legally “bound” in the WTO and the rates that countries actually apply. The technical annex in this year’s issue focuses on WTO members’ participation in regional trade agreements (RTAs) with complementary data provided on tariff elimination in RTAs notified under the WTO’s Transparency Mechanism.
Regional Rules on the Global Trading System
The proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past two decades has highlighted the need to look closely at the potential conflicts between regional and WTO rules or disciplines. A major obstacle to advancing understanding of RTAs is the absence of detailed information about their contents. This has limited the debate between those who view RTAs as discriminatory instruments hostage to protectionist interests and those who see them as conducive to multilateral trade opening. This book provides detailed analysis of RTA rules in six key areas - market access technical barriers to trade contingent protection investment services and competition policy - across dozens of the main RTAs in the world. The analysis helps to provide new insights into the interplay between regional and multilateral trade rules advances understanding of the economic effects of RTAs and contributes to the discussion on how to deal with the burgeoning number of RTAs.