Project Title

Advancing FTAAP Agenda: APEC Digital Trade Provision Handbook 

Project Year

2025   

Project Number

CTI_01_2025S 

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Project Type

Self-Funded 

Project Status

Project in Implementation   
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Project No.

CTI_01_2025S 

Project Title

Advancing FTAAP Agenda: APEC Digital Trade Provision Handbook 

Project Status

Project in Implementation 

Fund Account

Self-Funded 

Project Year

2025 

Sponsoring Forum

Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI) 

Topics

Trade Facilitation 

Committee

Committee on Trade and Investment (CTI) 

Other Fora Involved

 

Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved

 

Proposing Economy(ies)

Australia 

Co-Sponsoring Economies

Chile; China; Hong Kong, China; Japan; Korea; New Zealand; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand 

Expected Start Date

01/02/2025 

Expected Completion Date

31/03/2026 

Project Proponent Name 1

Dominic Fischer 

Job Title 1

Policy Officer, APEC Trade and Investment Section 

Organization 1

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 

Postal Address 1

Not Applicable 

Telephone 1

Not Applicable 

Fax 1

Not Applicable 

Email 1

Dominic.Fischer@dfat.gov.au 

Project Proponent Name 2

Not Applicable 

Job Title 2

Not Applicable 

Organization 2

Not Applicable 

Postal Address 2

Not Applicable 

Telephone 2

Not Applicable 

Fax 2

Not Applicable 

Email 2

Not Applicable 

Declaration

Dominic Fischer 

Project Cost (US$)

$250,000.00 

Project Summary

Past research in APEC has shown the significant economic benefits to be realized from increased coverage of Digital Trade rules between trade partners in the region. Digital trade provisions coming into force between 2000 and 2018 added roughly USD 40.1 billion or 2.9% to digitally delivered trade flows in 2018. The adoption of specific digital trade provisions has been found to increase the flows of digitally ordered and digitally deliverable trade by between 11% and 44% in successive years. As such this project will seek to develop a Handbook for APEC economies to utilise in policy making by identifying contemporary and ambitious digital trade provisions and areas where more work is needed. The handbook will explore the purpose of individual provisions, what they seek to achieve and how to write them in such a way that will generate the greatest economic impact. The project will also explore standalone digital trade/economy agreements and their place in the trade architecture, including how they relate to existing trade obligations in FTAs. The Handbook will be made publicly available on the APEC website.

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