A Study on the Latin American Model Law of Digital Trade Agreement: Focusing on Comparative Analysis with the CPTPP

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As the COVID-19 pandemic prolongs, many aspects of economic activities in Latin American countries have transitioned to non-face-to-face methods utilizing the internet. This study aims to propose a Latin American standard model for digital trade norms by extracting and comparing 19 regional trade agreements (RTAs) related to e-commerce, concluded among Latin American countries, from the TAPED database, with the e-commerce provisions of the CPTPP. The comparative analysis results show that the key e-commerce provisions of the CPTPP have been adopted in the Latin American RTAs concluded after the CPTPP. Given that Chile, Mexico, and Peru are current members of the CPTPP, this agreement is not unfamiliar to Latin American countries. Therefore, this study proposes using the CPTPP as the basic framework for a Latin American standard digital trade model, with new digital trade norms added to this basic framework.