{"id":39246,"date":"2026-03-26T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/39246\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:24:19","slug":"e-commerce-draft-decisions-ahead-of-the-14th-wto-ministerial-conference-multilateral-dialogue-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/39246\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Commerce draft decisions ahead of the 14th WTO Ministerial Conference &#8211; Multilateral Dialogue Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nby<br \/>\nCedric Amon\n<\/p>\n<p>Map of the Month 03\/2026<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 14th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14) will be held 26\u201329 March in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon.\u200b In 2024, members agreed to extend the \u2018practice of not imposing\u2019 customs duties on electronic transmissions until MC14 or 31 March 2026 (whichever comes first), when it will expire.\u200b The so-called E-Commerce Moratorium has existed since 1998, but renewals have become increasingly contested.\u200b Given the importance of digital trade, most members want greater predictability in the digital economy.\u200b Based on draft Ministerial Declarations and submissions to the WTO General Council: 19 members support making the moratorium permanent; 139 support at least extending it until the next Ministerial Conference.\n<\/p>\n<p>This publication is available in additional languages<\/p>\n<p>German<\/p>\n<p>Open PDF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Cedric Amon Map of the Month 03\/2026 The 14th WTO Ministerial Conference (MC14) will be held 26\u201329&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1431,22836,22832,22835,65,11532,22834,22833,22831,17],"class_list":["post-39246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-1431","tag-branch-office","tag-department-of-european-and-international-cooperation","tag-europe-and-north-america","tag-geneva","tag-homepage","tag-map-of-the-month","tag-multilateral-dialogue-geneva","tag-overview-page","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116296172417480541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}