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<p>The objective of this paper is to provide insight into the regulatory solutions that refer to the electronic commerce (e-commerce) adopted in the regional trade agreements (RTAs) of the European Union. Our goal is to compare these regulatory measures with the obstacles indicated in the literature as key issues hampering international digital trade. We provide a formal-dogmatic analysis of all of the newly adopted RTAs. The findings resulting from this analysis indicate that even though the regulatory dimension of global economic trade attempts to somehow address the issues resulting from the specific characteristics of the digital economy, the process is still in its infancy. The majority of provisions do not consider the key problems that impede international digital trade. The originality of our work results from its focus on the most recent RTAs, the analysis of which is hardly present in the scholarship.</p>
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The objective of this paper is to provide insight into the regulatory solutions that refer to the electronic commerce (e-commerce) adopted in the regional trade agreements (RTAs) of the European Union. Our goal is to compare these regulatory measures with the obstacles indicated in the literature as key issues hampering international digital trade. We provide a formal-dogmatic analysis of all of the newly adopted RTAs. The findings resulting from this analysis indicate that even though the regulatory dimension of global economic trade attempts to somehow address the issues resulting from the specific characteristics of the digital economy, the process is still in its infancy. The majority of provisions do not consider the key problems that impede international digital trade. The originality of our work results from its focus on the most recent RTAs, the analysis of which is hardly present in the scholarship.

The EU's regional trade agreements: How the EU addresses challenges related to digital transformation

International Journal of Management and Economics

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The objective of this paper is to provide insight into the regulatory solutions that refer to the electronic commerce (e-commerce) adopted in the regional...

The EU's regional trade agreements: How the EU addresses challenges related to digital transformation

Article Category: Conceptual Paper

Published Online: May 30, 2021

Page range: 105 - 120

Received: Nov 09, 2020

Accepted: Mar 20, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2021-0009

Keywords
digital trade, electronic commerce, European Union, regional trade agreements

© 2021 Magdalena Slok-Wodkowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The EU's regional trade agreements: How the EU addresses challenges related to digital transformation

Article Category: Conceptual Paper

Published Online: May 30, 2021

Page range: 105 - 120

Received: Nov 09, 2020

Accepted: Mar 20, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijme-2021-0009

Keywordsdigital trade, electronic commerce, European Union, regional trade agreements

© 2021 Magdalena Slok-Wodkowska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
digital trade, electronic commerce, European Union, regional trade agreements