On 10 April, eBay lodged a submission to the Australian Senate’s Inquiry into the Treasury Laws Amendment (GST Low Value Goods) Bill 2017. The Senate Economics Legislation Committee is conducting an Inquiry into the Bill which will see all online overseas shopping imported into Australia subject to Australia’s domestic Goods and Services Tax (GST) and proposes that online marketplaces collect. The move is unprecedented and unworkable.
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This article originally appeared on BIPAC's blog. Written by BIPAC Political Analyst Jim Ellis.
Today, Brian Bieron, eBay’s Executive Director, Global Public Policy, testified at a United States International Trade Commission (USITC) public hearing focused on global digital trade. Brian’s testimony will help shape a report the USITC is writing titled, Global Digital Trade I: Market Opportunities and Key Foreign Trade Restrictions. The report, which will be finished in August, will help inform US officials in charge of negotiating trade agreements of barriers that U.S.
This week, Hanne Melin, eBay Director of Global Public Policy, participated in a conference organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) titled, “Regulatory coherence and the multilateral trade system: Lessons from RTAs and options to promote convergence”.