The growth of the digital economy fundamentally challenges our understandings of how international trade operates, and raises questions about how to adapt existing trade rules and market access commitments to a digital era. This short inquiry seeks to understand how developments in digital trade and the digitisation of trade should be reflected in agreements the UK Government negotiate and sign.
Witnesses Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP (Minister of State (Minister for Trade Policy and Economic Security) at Department for Business and Trade), Graham Floater (Director, US, Services, Investment and Digital at Department for Business and Trade), Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology), and Vicki Brown (Head of Data Flows Policy at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)
Witnesses Chris Southworth (Secretary General at International Chamber of Commerce), Sabina Ciofu (Associate Director at techUK), Professor Emily Jones (Associate Professor of Public Policy at Oxford University, Blavatnik School of Government), and Seamus Nevin (Chief Economist at MakeUK)
Professor Emily Jones (Associate Professor in Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Dr Philippa Collins (Senior Lecturer in Law, Co-Director of the Centre for Law at Work at The University of Bristol), Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (Professor of Law at Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge), Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells (Professor of Economic Law and Co-Director at Centre for Global Law and Innovation, University of Bristol), Dr Kristina Irion (Associate Professor at Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam), Dr Cosmina Dorobantu (Co-Director of Public Policy Programme and Policy Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute and Turing OII Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Burcu Kilic (Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation), and Daria Onitiu (Post-doctoral Researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
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