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............................................................................ 42 Lee A. Bygrave appropriate bodies to implement them. These problems notwithstanding, accreditation is likely to go a considerable way towards engendering consumer trust in ODR.
THE WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION AND LEGAL REGULATION OF E-COMMERCE SUSAN SCHIAVETTA 1 Introduction The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has produced an abundance of ways for the world to communicate. One of the most important outcomes of this development is the Internet, which has provided the platform for a new arena for trade and commerce. While the emergence of this new trading arena is advantageous in respect of economic growth, it has also created various challenges for governments. One challenge of particular importance concerns how best to co-ordinate the various regulatory responses of national governments to e-commerce. International organisations have the potential to play a significant role in co-ordinating national responses but the efficacy of some of them, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is hampered by the fact that they are to a large extent merely support mechanisms lacking authority to issue legally binding decisions. The World Trade Organisation (WTO), on the other hand, is not hampered in this way. It thus stands forth as the one international organisation that can play a decisive role in shaping the legal regulation of e-commerce. In particular, the WTO is arguably the only international organisation with requisite knowledge and authority to resolve the major trading issue as to how e-products should be classified for the purpose of collecting customs duties. 2 GATT Trading internationally is a particularly profitable way of doing business, but originally many believed that it had an adverse affect on national economies. As a result, restrictions were employed to prevent, or at the very least control, exports. Such restrictions can transpire through various obstacles; eg, enforcing quantitative restrictions which limit the amount of goods that can be
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