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Streaming a Movie Abroad May Soon Come With Taxes at the Border

  • Global deal that’s kept internet tariff-free is under threat
  • Digital trade is a key issue for debate at WTO forum next week
WATCH: Digital trade is a key issue being debated at the World Trade Organization’s forum. Tom Mackenzie reports.Source: Bloomberg

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The decades-old global consensus that’s allowed e-commerce and a growing tidal wave of data to cross borders without tolls is at risk of falling apart.