associated with e-commerce and the digitalization of trade in goods and services. At the multilateral level, the WTO holds … unlikely, e-commerce rules agreed in the WTO will potentially serve as baseline commitments on cooperation in digital trade. At …

This essay outlines the rationale and scope of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) against the backdrop of the World Trade … Organization (WTO) and further highlights the WTO rules on such agreements. It then attempts to answer the fundamental question as … WTO jurisprudence. It will do so by investigating whether the regionalism-multilateralism relationship is complementary or …