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To: drmorgan who wrote (12883)	2/19/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) of 22053

U.S. Asks WTO Members to Agree on Internet Duty-Free Pact Geneva, Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Deputy Trade Representative Rita Hayes asked World Trade Organization members to agree to keep the Internet a duty-free area, amid expectations electronic commerce will increase. Hayes, speaking at the WTO's General Council Meeting, asked WTO members to codify existing practices of not levying any taxes on electronic transmissions, adding that this would ''send the right message to the business community.'' ''Electronic commerce will only increase in importance in the next few years,'' Hayes said, according to a copy of her speech. ''We can start agreeing on points that do not require any particular concession by any country,'' she added. At the moment, no WTO member levies duties on electronic transmissions. The proposed agreement would not include information technology products, nor products ordered via the Internet but delivered through normal commercial channels. WTO member states earlier this month proposed hundreds of information technology products for inclusion in a new trade treaty that could see tariffs on trade worth about $50 billion a year scrapped by 2000. The first WTO Information Technology Agreement, signed by 41 countries in March 1997, ordered tariffs covering annual trade worth about $500 billion be scrapped, mostly by 2000. o~~~ O

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