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Comment: Extension of digital tariffs ban at WTO might be its last

By Joanna Sopinska
  • 21 Jun 2022 09:32
  • 21 Jun 2022 09:32
The continued ban on tariffs on electronic transmissions, extended at the most recent World Trade Organization meeting last Friday, might not last beyond the next deadline at the end of 2023.
Such tariffs have been banned by the WTO since 1998, with the deadline being extended for two years at

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Joanna Sopinska

Senior Correspondent


Joanna covers trade in Brussels. Formerly trade editor of EU Trade Insights, she has many years' experience reporting on trade, investment policy and foreign affairs. Before that, she spent nine years at Europolitics news agency writing on trade, agriculture policy and foreign affairs. Before moving to Brussels in 2006, Joanna worked as an analyst at the Polish Institute of International Relations (PISM) in Warsaw.

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