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Free trade in a digital world

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Considering the possible implications for free trade, traditionally based on non-digital goods, for a modern global economy that is increasingly based on intangible products and services enabled by digital technologies.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 4
      April 2019
      136 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3321370
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