KAS Japan Weekly COVID-19 Updates - 日本事務所・アジア経済政策プログラム (SOPAS)
Key messages include:
- Cross-border e-commerce, digital payments and digitally enabled transactions in goods and services have expanded.
- Digital trade expansion faces challenges such as the growing digital gap, antiquated trade rules, concerns on data ownership, privacy and security.
- Addressing these challenges require adapting forward-looking trade agreements, modernizing trade rules, and closing the digital divide between developed and developing economies.
