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Electronic Commerce, Trade and Tariff Revenue: A Quantitative Assessment
Author(s) -
Mattoo Aaditya,
PerezEsteve Rosa,
Schuknecht Ludger
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9701.00391
Subject(s) - tariff , revenue , duty , cyberspace , e commerce , commerce , business , economics , electronic media , international economics , international trade , the internet , advertising , finance , computer science , law , world wide web , political science
This paper assesses the quantitative importance of electronic commerce in trade and tariff revenue, in light of the WTO decision on ‘duty‐free cyberspace’. Electronic commerce is likely to boost international trade in software, digitizable media products (music, books) and many services sectors significantly. However, despite the growing importance of electronic commerce for trade, tariff revenue loss from duty‐free electronic commerce is unlikely to be significant.