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Central Asia: Digital Trade Working Groups

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From March 11-19, CLDP, hosted bilateral stakeholder roundtables in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan for the Regional Expert Level Working Group on Digital Trade. The goal of the Digital Trade Working Group is to engage with stakeholders in the region to develop an open, inclusive, and secure digital infrastructure that will serve as a foundation for regional development and economic growth. The Digital Trade Working Group aims to achieve this goal by addressing digital trade barriers and fostering the necessary legal and regulatory environment that will allow digital trade to develop and thrive across the region. These March bilateral Digital Trade Roundtables included government, private sector, and civil society stakeholders in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic, and identified specific country-level digital trade priorities – in preparation for a regional Digital Trade Working Group meeting in Summer 2022. Topics for discussion during the Digital Trade Roundtables include, policies that facilitate effective cross-border data flows, cross-border electronic payments, signatures, and transactions, taxes on digital goods and services, e-government, and consumer protection.

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