Internet is a global market place. The rapid development of the Internet, and especially of
Internet-based commerce, has largely taken place outside the standard trade-regulatory
frameworks that cover most other forms of cross-border commerce. As the size of the Internet
markets has grown, and as their contribution to the overall economy has become more
pronounced, more attention has been given to regulatory concerns, such as traderestrictive
measures, damaging the climate of trade and investment in the fields of e-commerce …