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India’s ban on Chinese apps: Recourse under international investment law

By Ikigai Law | Digital Economy, Digital Trade, Online Content | 0 comment | 28 July, 2020 | 6

In June 2020, the MEITY banned 59 mobile applications based out of China. Prateek Bagaria from Singularity Legal and Anirudh Rastogi from Ikigai Law discuss the possibility of a challenge against such action under India’s bilateral investment treaty with China.   I. Background 1. On 29 June, the Indian Ministry of Electronics and IT (“MEIT”) released aRead more

Can India justify the ban on Chinese Apps under the national security exception of the WTO Framework?

By Ikigai Law | Digital Economy, Digital Trade, Online Content | 0 comment | 21 July, 2020 | 2

Recently, the Indian Government banned 59 Chinese mobile apps citing risks to the sovereignty and integrity of India. In this piece we examine whether India would be successful in invoking the national security exemption to justify the ban, in the (unlikely) event that China were to approach the WTO. Introduction Recently, the Indian Government bannedRead more

Analysing E-Commerce Norms in Free Trade Agreements: Notes for WTO’s Plurilateral Negotiations

By Ikigai Law | Digital Trade | 0 comment | 3 July, 2020 | 2

In a recent whitepaper, we undertook a comparative analysis of e-commerce provisions in a few prominent FTAs, and provided key takeaways for WTO’s on-going plurilateral e-commerce negotiations. Download our white paper here. Background Over the last two decades, electronic commerce (e-commerce) provisions in free trade agreements (FTAs) have gained prominence. This is mainly due toRead more

The Data Localization Debate in International Trade Law

By Ikigai Law | Data Governance, Digital Trade | 0 comment | 22 June, 2020 | 8

Background In recent years, proponents of data globalization have been at loggerheads with the proponents of data localization. The former have been promoting free and open flow of data across borders, while the latter have been adopting measures curtailing cross-border data flow citing privacy and security concerns. These data localization measures broadly restrict or prohibitRead more

The Global North-South Divide in E-Commerce

By Ikigai Law | Digital Trade | 0 comment | 12 June, 2020 | 5

A study by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimated that while developed countries account for 76% of global exports of digitizable products, the share of developing countries is only 5%, except for China’s exports which account for 18%.[1] The digital divide between the developed world and the developing world has reflected inRead more

WTO’s E-Commerce Discourse: Examining Critical ‘Cross-Cutting’ Issues

By Ikigai Law | Digital Trade | 0 comment | 12 June, 2020 | 6

As we have discussed in our earlier piece, here, in 1998, the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) established a comprehensive work programme on electronic commerce (e-commerce) (hereafter, WorkProgramme) to examine all trade-related issues concerning e-commerce.[1] The Work Programme, apart from allocating four WTO bodies to examine specific issues concerning e-commerce,[2] allowed theRead more

E-commerce Related Discourse at the WTO: Brief History and Subsequent Developments

By Ikigai Law | Digital Trade | 0 comment | 10 June, 2020 | 7

On the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, 2019, 76 Member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), decided to formally initiate negotiations towards a plurilateral legal framework regulating electronic commerce (e-commerce). This decision was taken after more than two decades of oscillation between dialogue and deadlock is the e-commerce discourseRead more

Webinar on International Trade Law: Implications for Data Governance

By Ikigai Law | Data Governance, Digital Trade | 0 comment | 2 June, 2020 | 3

In our webinar on ‘International Trade Law: Implications for Data Governance’, we discussed emerging issues in digital trade and data governance, and their interaction with the multilateral and regional trade regimes. To discuss this, Nehaa Chaudhari and Aman Taneja of Ikigai Law were in conversation with Neha Mishra, a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre forRead more

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