Digital trade governance and regional integration

9th World Conference on Research in Teaching and Education

Year: 2025

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Digital trade governance and regional integration

Didier François Diégane DIOP

ABSTRACT:

The detailed examination of such a subject will be carried out on the basis of a fundamental problem, which will thus serve as a guideline in the presentation of the ideas which should underlie the approach. This concerns the question of the links between digital trade and regional integration, particularly Regional Trade Agreements. In other words, how the standards or rules of the GATT and the WTO make it possible to understand the dynamics of inclusive and sustainable development, in favor of developing countries and least developed countries (LDCs) in the French-speaking world, notably through regional integration through digital trade, and specifically at the level of Regional Trade Agreements ?
Thus the problem of method is at the heart of any scientific work as it is true that the method sheds light on the hypotheses and determines the conclusions, our approach will be ordered with a few exceptions around the use of the analytical and exegetical but also comparative method. It is understood as the analysis, interpretation and explanation of the rules of law, particularly those contained in the various legal texts of the GATT and the WTO.
As for the expected results, the exception of Article 24 of the GATT requires a failure to take into account mixed RTAs in WTO law and a calling into question of the preferential triptych: Preference, non-reciprocity and discrimination.

Keywords: : GATT, WTO, RTAs, LDCs, e-commerce, Regional Intégration