Outside voices: Digital trade, elusive rules of origin and an ‘Orwellian trap’ to avoid

Outside voices: Digital trade, elusive rules of origin and an ‘Orwellian trap’ to avoid

With all trade eyes focused on President Trump’s reconfiguration of the world trading order, there’s an elephant in the negotiating room, suggests longtime analyst Hector Torres, senior fellow at the Waterloo, Ontario-based Centre for International Governance Innovation. Most analysts, he writes in an article for the Singapore-based, Asia-focused Hinrich Foundation, overlook “an urgent and large question on how parties to such bilateral deals co…