Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce

Citation
World Trade Organization, Declaration on Global Electronic Commerce (Mar. 20, 1998) (full-text).

Overview
The Declaration was adopted by the WTO at the WTO Ministerial Conference in May 1998. It requested that the General Council establish a work program to examine all trade-related issues concerning global electronic commerce and to report to the Third Ministerial Conference in 1999. It also declared the continuation of the member states’ current practice of not imposing custom duties on electronic transmissions.