MAR 07, 2018 | US
BSA Praises Digital Trade Chapter in Newly Signed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
WASHINGTON – March 8, 2018 – BSA | The Software Alliance applauds the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in Chile today by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. The agreement’s e-commerce chapter creates the first binding multilateral rules in a trade agreement on cross-border data flows, restrictions on data localization, and protecting source code disclosure, among others. Moving data across borders is critical for services that sustain global commerce, improve health and safety, promote social good, and enable the technologies of the future.
BSA urges negotiators for the digital trade chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to build upon the provisions established in CPTPP. We likewise recommend that the US Government pursue possibilities for re-engagement on TPP with the TPP-11 governments, as it recently indicated it is considering.
BSA also encourages CPTPP governments to incorporate the agreement’s e-commerce provisions into other free trade agreements they are pursuing with third countries. Together, the CPTPP and a modernized NAFTA could form the basis for a broad international consensus on digital trade rules that will continue the growth of the global economy and foster innovation.
BSA 소개
소프트웨어 연합(BSA | The Software Alliance, 이하 BSA)(www.bsa.org)은 각국 정부를 대상으로 세계 시장에서 전 세계 소프트웨어 업계를 대변하고 옹호하는 선도적 연합체입니다. 세계의 가장 혁신적 기업들이 회원사로 참여하며 경제에 활기를 불어 넣고 현대의 생활을 향상시키는 소프트웨어 솔루션을 만들어 내고 있습니다.
워싱턴 DC에 본부를 두고, 30개국이 넘는 국가들에서 운영되는 BSA는, 합법적 소프트웨어 사용을 증진시키고 기술 혁신을 촉진하며 디지털 경제의 성장을 추진하는 공공 정책을 지지하는 준법 프로그램들을 선도합니다.