Cross-Border Data Transfers Regulations in the Context of International Trade Law: A PRC Perspective

ISBN-13: 9789811649974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 169 str.

Yihan Dai

Opis

This book focuses on the PRC’s cross-border data transfer legislation in recent years, as well as the implications for international trade law. The book addresses the convergence of industries and technologies notably caused by digitization; the issue of conflicts between goods and services; and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) as well as the difficulty of classifying service sectors under WTO members’ commitments. The book also examines the FTAs that entered into force after 2012 that regulate digital trade beyond the venue of the WTO and analyzes their rules of relevance for cross-border data flows and international trade. It asks whether and how these FTAs have deliberately reacted to the increasing importance of data flows as well as to the trouble of governing them in the context of global governance

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Table of Contents

Abstract 

INTRODUCTION 

Chapter 1 The PRC’s Legislation on Cross-Border Transfer 

1.1 Overview 

1.2 The PRC’s Legislation on Cross-Border Transfer 

1.2.1 Laws and Regulations 

1.2.2 Non-binding Guidelines 

1.2.3 Increasingly Tight Restrictions on Cross-Border Data Transfers 

1.3 Interim Remarks 

Chapter 2 The Cross-border Data Transfer in the Context of International Trade – the PRC Perspective 

2.1 Cross-border Data Transfer Legislation in the Context of International Trade 30

2.1.1 General Remarks 

2.1.2 The PRC and the WTO 

2.1.3 The Tradability of Data 

2.1.4 Data as a Service 

2.1.5 Cross-border Data Transfers: Service or Good? 

2.1.6 Cross-border Data Transfers and the GATS 

2.1.6.1 The Four Modes of the GATS 

2.1.6.2 The Technological Advances and the GATS 

2.1.6.3 Most Favoured Nation (MFN), Market Access and National Treatment (NT) in the GATS 

2.1.6.4 The GATS Annex on Telecommunications 

2.1.6.5 The PRC’s GATS Commitments – Computer and Related Services 

2.1.6.6 Cross-border Data Flows and Trade Debate 

2.1.6.7 Exceptions to the GATS Framework 

2.2 The Information Silk Road 

2.3 A Comprehensive Outlook on Development 

2.4 Interim Remarks 

Chapter 3 The Regulation of Cross-border Data Flows in the Context of Free Trade Agreements 

3.1 Overview 

3.2 FTAs and Cross-border Data Transfers 

3.2.1 General Remarks 

3.2.2 E-commerce Chapters 

3.2.2.1 The Development of E-commerce Chapters in FTAs 

3.2.2.2 United States-Involved FTAs after 2012 

3.2.2.3 EU-Involved FTAs 

3.2.2.4 Other FTAs 

3.2.3 Commitments Made on Service Sectors 

3.2.4 Economic and Technical Cooperation 

3.2.5 Other Chapters 

3.3 The Defects of Existing FTAs 

Chapter 4 Free Trade Agreements and Cross-border Data Transfers-The PRC Perspective 

4.1 FTAs and RTAs in Which the PRC Is Involved 

4.1.1 General Remarks 

4.1.2 E-commerce Chapters 

4.1.2.1 The CEPA Hong Kong, the CEPA Macau and the Hong Kong-Macao CEPA 

4.1.2.2 The Other Thirteen FTAs 

4.1.2.3 Electronic Authentication and Electronic Signatures 

4.1.2.4 Cooperation on E-commerce 

4.1.3 Dispute Settlement 

4.1.4 Intellectual Property (IP) Chapters 

4.2 Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership 

4.3 Interim Remarks 

Chapter 5 Current Issues Related to Cross-border Data Transfers at the International Level 

5.1 Fragmentation of the Legal System 

5.2 The Necessity of Cross-border Data Transfers 

5.3 Challenges Facing Legislatures 

5.3.1 Cross-border Data Transfers and Emerging Concerns 

5.3.2 Evolution of Language in the Digital Age 

5.4 A Proposed Approach: Plurilateral Trade Agreements 

5.5 Interim Remarks 

Chapter 6 Conclusion 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

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Reports, Webpages, Newspapers and Others 

 

O autorze

Yihan Dai is an associate research fellow of the East China University of Political Science and Law, with particular interests in data protection law and new technologies. She obtains a doctorate from the University of Macao. She holds a master’s degree in International Business Law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a B.A. in Economic Law from the East China University of Political Science and Law. She had half a year’s stay at the University of Californian, San Diego as a visiting scholar, fully funded by China Scholarship Council.