E-Commerce Might Bring in Comprehensive Trade Liberalisation: Biswajit Dhar

Biswajit Dhar talks about how taxes have changed the entire narrative and why he sees E-commerce as an attempt to liberalise trade completely.
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Interviewed by Biswajit Dhar

Newsclick talks to Biswajit Dhar, the economics professor at JNU about the issues of E-commerce which is going to be one of the prominent points at the WTO Ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires, 2017. Dhar elaborates on the motivations behind making E-commerce a major discussing point at the WTO, how the definition of E-commerce has changed over time and what are the new inclusions that have been made to E-commerce now. He also talks about how taxes have changed the entire narrative and why he sees E-commerce as an attempt to liberalise trade completely.