' wealth, and trade in goods and services. The impacts of the use of credit cards, use of the internet for shopping and payment … goods and services. Similarly, the use of the internet for buying things and for paying utility bills is a significant … of utility bills, and electronic transfer of funds on GDP growth, trade in goods and services, and shareholders' wealth …

The OECD Digital STRI identifies, catalogues and quantifies barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services …

. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (‘GATS') — as the only multilateral treaty that creates binding international … obligations on the treatment to be accorded to service suppliers, including online services — provides a solid foundational … framework for services supplied by participants on blockchain, even if, unsurprisingly, several grey areas exist. Applying GATS …

Digital transformation has enabled easier tradability of traditional services across borders and the emergence of new … services that create value from data. But the benefits derived from digitalisation risk being derailed by existing and emerging … trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (Digital STRI) is a new tool that identifies …