Cross-border Data Flows: Regulations in international digital trade and China’s solution
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61173/kqm1nt77Keywords:
International digital trade, Cross-border data flows, Global governance, Sovereignty and human rightsAbstract
International digital trade is accelerating the speed of economic globalization and is becoming a new driver of economic growth. Data, as a key production factor, is ubiquitous in digital trade. This paper combines research on the topics of economy and trade in the digital era and further relates to cross-border data flows, to analyze regulations and governance of data flows in different economies, especially comparing the core elements involving cross-border data flows in regional agreements such as the CPTPP, the DEPA and the RCEP, to explore the rationality and necessity of various types of regulations. Besides, from investigating the specific development of the international community to discuss the real governance dilemma about strict regulation and fragmentation of data flows, to explore the solution to the problem of balancing cross-border data flows and risk prevention in international trade from legal regulation.
References
[1] Ding, X. D. (2023). “Rethinking Jurisprudence and Institutional Reconstruction of Cross-border Flow of Data --An Appraisal of the Measures for Data Exit Security Assessment.” Administrative Law Studies (01): 62-77.
[2] Castro, B. D. and F. A. M (2015) “Cross-Border Data Flows Enable Growth in All Industries.” Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
[3] Ma, Q. J. and Li, X. N. (2021). “A Study of Regulatory Rules for Cross-Border Data Flows in the Context of International Digital Trade.” international trade (03): 74-81.
[4] Liu, H. and Ye, K. R. (2020). “Layered legal forms of cyber sovereignty.” Journal of East China University of Political Science and Law 23(04): 67-82.
[5] Yakovleva, S. and K. Irion (2020). “Pitching trade against privacy: reconciling EU governance of personal data flows with external trade.” International Data Privacy Law 10(3): 201-221.
[6] Matthias, B (2017). “The Cost of Data Localisation: Self- Defeating Behaviour in a Recovering Economy (quoted).” Journal of Shantou University(Humanities & Social Sciences Edition 33(05): 44-47.
[7] Graham, G. (2012). “The influence of European data privacy standards outside Europe: implications for globalization of Convention 108.” International Data Privacy Law (2): 2.
[8] Buttarelli G, (2016) “The EU GDPR as a clarion call for a new global digital gold standard”, International Data Privacy Law 6(2),77-78.
[9] Zhang, D. (2018). “A brief discussion of legal standards for the cross-border flow of personal data.” Journal of China University of Political Science and Law (3): 12.
[10] Ramzan, M., et al. (2023). “A step towards achieving SDG 2030 agenda: Analyzing the predictive power of information globalization amidst technological innovation-environmental stewardship nexus in the greenest economies.” Journal of Environmental Management 335.
[11] González Fuster, G. (2016). “Un-mapping Personal Data Transfers.” European Data Protection Law Review 2: 160-168.
[12] Liu, J.R. (2022). “Towards a Global Regulatory Framework for Cross-Border Data Flows -Fundamental Concerns and the China’s Approach.” Frontiers of Law in China 17(3): 412-439.
[13] Meltzer, J. P. (2015). “The Internet, Cross-Border Data Flows and International Trade.” Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies 2(1): 90-102.
[14] Aaronson, S. A. and P. Leblond (2018). “Another Digital Divide: The Rise of Data Realms and its Implications for the WTO.” Journal of International Economic Law 21(2): 245-272.
[15] Aaronson, S. (2015). “Why Trade Agreements are not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross-Border Data Flows, Human Rights, and National Security.” World Trade Review 14(4): 671-700.
[16] Azmeh, S., et al. (2020). “The International Trade Regime and the Quest for Free Digital Trade.” International Studies Review 22(3): 671-692.
[17] Ferracane, M. F. (2019). “Data flows and national security: a conceptual framework to assess restrictions on data flows under GATS security exception.” Digital Policy Regulation and Governance 21(1): 44-70.
[18] Gao, F.P.- (2016). “International rules for the protection and utilisation of personal data: sources and trends.” China Law Press.
[19] Johnson, D. R. and D. Post (1996). “Law and borders - The rise of law in Cyberspace.” Stanford Law Review 48(5): 1367- 1402.
[20] Portes, R. and H. Rey (2005). “The determinants of crossborder equity flows.” Journal of International Economics 65(2): 269-296.
[21] Susan Ariel Aaronson, “Why Trade Agreements Are Not Setting Information Free: The Lost History and Reinvigorated Debate over Cross Border Data Flows, Human Rights, and National Security”, 14 World Trade Review 671, 672 (2015).
[22] Svetlana Yakovleva & Kristina Irion, “Pitching Trade against Privacy: Reconciling EU Governance of Personal Data Flows with External Trade”, International Data Privacy Law, Vol.10, No.3, 2020; Svetlana Yakovleva & Kristina Irion, “The Best of Both Worlds-Free Trade in Services and EU Law on Privacy and Data Protection”, Eur.DataProt.L.Rev.,Vol.2,No.191, (2016).
[23] Voss, W. G. (2022). “Cross-Border Data Flows, the GDPR, and Data Governance.” Vestnik Mezhdunarodnykh Organizatsii- International Organisations Research Journal 17(1): 56-95.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 by the authors.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
