E-Commerce as a Tool to Achieve Universal Sustainable Goals

Mye Elnir

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E-Commerce as a Tool to Achieve Universal Sustainable Goals

Mye Elnir

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E-commerce introduces a market full of opportunities by engaging more individuals in trade, creating space for new traded products by businesses (such as electronic transitions, electronic services, and 3D printing algorithms.), and allowing global communications and connections for trade through interactive platforms. It is inevitable to ignore COVID-19 in this sense, as the pandemic only emphasized the presence of e-commerce and boosted it to the extreme, forcing the world to shift to e-commerce consumption of goods and e-services to avoid further pandemic spread. As e-commerce becomes a dominant source of economic growth, employment, social empowerment, and political involvement, worldwide, one would expect that it would be governed under a multilateral agreement that establishes e-commerce as a form of trade, from an inclusive perspective. However, the lack of a comprehensive governing law in the multilateral level leaves Regional Trade Agreements the responsibility to regulate e-commerce and to ensure equal global reach to e-commerce opportunities. By examining dominant RTAs in force in a five-year period (2015-2020) that include a specific e-commerce chapter, and using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this piece examines the best practices for allowing e-commerce to be globally and equally available for all, recognizing 4 sets of provisions that is found today in Regional Trade Agreements: Capacity building provisions; Facilitation provisions; Protection provisions; and E-cooperation provisions. Including such sets of provisions in Regional Trade Agreements, in the manners offered by this piece, will have a great probability of promoting global quality of education; gender equality; decent work and economic growth; the enhancement of industry; innovation and infrastructure; and justice and strong institutions; as called for by the UN SDGs.

Published in	International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 12, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijber.20231204.12
Page(s)	134-146
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E-Commerce, COVID-19, Digital Trade, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Regional Trade Agreements

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