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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez
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Senior Economist at the OECD leading the work on digital trade. Views are my own

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
Ever wondered about the economic impact of data regulation?

Our recent OECD-WTO study has you covered:

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

See below the TLDR
Economic Implications of Data Regulation
Cross-border data flows are the lifeblood of today’s social and economic interactions, but they also raise a range of new challenges, including for privacy and data protection, national security, cybe...
www.oecd.org

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 19
Check out my new blog where I (try to) show (geek-out about) how the 1985 classic film "the Goonies" offers a metaphor for #digitaltrade: full of promise but also fraught with challenges that require cooperation, creativity and courage.

www.oecd.org/en/blogs/202...
Unlocking the potential of digital trade: “Never say die”
In the 1985 classic film The Goonies, a group of friends set out to find the long-lost treasure of One-Eyed Willy to save their homes. Guided by a pirate’s map, they brave tunnels, traps, and trials, ...
www.oecd.org

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 26
What do we learn about digital trade from a 🧺 of fruit, a 💾 and an 80's lamp?

europa.eu/!vm3kNV
The ‘Trade-Off’ podcast
A podcast series on EU trade policy – and why it matters.
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Reposted by Javier López González

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Marion Jansen @marionjansen.bsky.social · Feb 18
Japan, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands had the lowest average regulatory barriers to #ServicesTrade in 2024.

📊 Discover the latest #OECDSTRI data 👇   www.oecd.org/en/topics/su...

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Paul Schwartz @paulschwartz.bsky.social · Feb 18
Biggest data breach ever underway: "The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down this weekend after members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency sought access to sensitive personal data about millions of Americans..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Top Social Security Official Resigns After Musk Team Seeks Data Access
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Marion Jansen, Javier López González

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Chad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · Feb 15
NEW TRADE TALKS PODCAST EPISODE

President Trump first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, but this time it’s different. On this week's show, Ana Swanson joins me to explain.

tradetalkspodcast.com/podcast/202-...
202. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs are back
President Trump first imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum in 2018, but this time it's different. Ana Swanson (New York Times) joins to explain (32:23).
tradetalkspodcast.com

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 14
If you embrace #datafreeflowswithtrust, while others turn to digital protectionism,
If you keep e-transmissions duty free, upholding an open digital trade landscape,
If you can finalise the e-commerce JSI, ensuring it benefits all,
Then yours will be the #digitaltrade opportunities
#tradevalentines

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
Overall, the analysis shows that data policies matter for our globalised economy. It underscores the dangers of unnecessarily restrictive policies and suggests that balanced and global approaches to data regulation work best.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
6. At the extreme, a requirement that all
data be stored domestically is equivalent to a prohibition to transfer data.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
5. Local storage requirements, when not combined with cross-border data flow restrictions, tend to have a lower impact. Indeed, the removal of these would lead to an increase in global GDP of 0.18%. More restrictive forms of data localisation lead to greater negative impacts.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
4. The economic costs of geoeconomic fragmentation of data flow regimes are potentially sizeable (more than 1% real global GDP loss), but much smaller than those associated with full fragmentation reflecting an already fragmented regulatory landscape.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
3. Open regimes that include safeguards balance the trade costs associated with data regulation with the trust benefits of data safeguards.

Indeed, if such approaches were adopted by all economies, global GDP would grow by 1.77%.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
2. The absence of data flow regulation is also associated with negative economic outcomes.

Indeed, if all economies removed their data flow regulation trade costs would fall, but so too would trust. Overall, global GDP would fall by nearly 1%

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
The results show that:

1. Cross-border data flows are a key element of the global economy.

Data autarky, or what might otherwise be considered as ‘full fragmentation, where all economies fully restrict their data flows, would lead to global GDP losses of 4.5% and reductions in exports of 8.5%.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
This report aims to identify the potential economic implications and opportunity costs associated with different data flow and data localisation regulations.

What is novel about it is that it looks at the trade cost and trust benefits associated with the regulation.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
The implications of these measures are not well understood, especially where it relates to finding a balance between enabling flows while also ensuring that data receives the desired safeguards when transferred abroad, a concept that has also been referred to as data free flows with trust (#DFFT).

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 11
#Dataflows are the lifeblood of our modern social and economic interactions. However, concerns related to #privacy, #nationalsecurity and #regulatoryreach, among others, have led to growing regulation conditioning (or prohibiting) its flow or mandating that data be stored or processed domestically.

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 3
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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Feb 3
I get that you are all talking about tariffs... but if you want to hear about the benefits of getting cross-border data flow regulation right, please join us on the 10th of February for the launch of the OECD-WTO report on the economic impact of data regulation!

www.wto.org/english/res_...
Launch of joint OECD-WTO report on Economic Implications of Data Regulation
www.wto.org

Reposted by Javier López González

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Sébastien Miroudot @smiroudot.bsky.social · Dec 5
How to ensure the resilience of critical global supply chains? In this paper with Bublu Thakur-Weigold, we discuss effective solutions based on a review of the supply chain management literature and recent actions by firms and governments.
doi.org/10.1787/be69...
Promoting resilience and preparedness in supply chains
This working paper contributes to the debate on effective solutions for assuring the resilience of critical global supply chains by undertaking a review of both the supply chain management literature ...
doi.org

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Borderlex @borderlex.net · Nov 29
Flash: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reappointed as #WTO director general

By Chris Horseman👇
borderlex.net/2024/11/29/f...
Flash: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reappointed as WTO director general
borderlex.net

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 27
OECD Trade Avengers in Brussels!

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 27
With all this talk about #deminimis, useful to re-up this paper from 2021 on trade in the time of parcels.

www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/0f...

Find out what items were most traded as parcels (during COVID), and how governments can help expedite parcels trade across the border.
www.oecd-ilibrary.org

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 21
If @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social is here then the Xodus is complete, we have all we need! Agree, it's so nice to read all of you trade peeps again... X really was crowding out all the good stuff!

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Javier Lopez-Gonzalez @jlopezgonzalez.bsky.social · Nov 13
The grass is definitely greener on this other side!
(been here for more than 10 minutes without being subjected to EM propaganda!)