White Paper Trade Rules and the Digital Economy Key Points and Findings

Huawei | Trade and the Digital Economy | White Paper Key Points and Findings
CHAPTER THREE | EMERGING POLICY AND REGULATORY TRENDS
The underlying legal and regulatory environment in which companies like Huawei operate is struggling
to keep pace with technological developments and the quick pace of innovation that characterizes this
sector. Many countries are enacting rules and setting up regulatory regimes that have a direct impact
on the digital economy. Whether it be with the objective of better protecting the data privacy of their
citizens, beefing up national law enforcement capabilities in the face of increasing cyber‐security
threats, or in the hope of kick‐starting their own domestic ICT industries, governments in many
countries, both developed and developing are becoming increasingly interventionist in this sector.
Chapter Three of our White Paper analyzes a number of these policy and regulatory trends and discuss
how they fit into the broader international consensus that has emerged over the last two decades with
respect to global internet governance and emerging trade rules on the digital economy.
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