Canada is one of more than 70 countries that will issue a joint statement tomorrow calling to restart talks on shared rules for e-commerce and data movement at the World Trade Organization. Previous discussions broke down partially due to China’s desire to control what information must be stored within the country. (Financial Times)

Talking point: The signatory countries are worried about the U.S.-China trade war and differing philosophies about data-use leading to a fracturing of the web. But the result is unlikely to be a clean split in two. India, for example, is set to introduce a law requiring data to be stored locally, and its new e-commerce laws hurt foreign platforms from the U.S.—and China. Canada is “a strong supporter of plurilateral efforts to advance WTO work in the area of e-commerce,” Isabella Brisson-Urdaneta, a spokesperson for Trade Minister Jim Carr, told me. But as The Logic reported in October 2018, Canada seemed to pick a side via the USMCA, which contains provisions allowing companies to host and transfer data out of users’ home countries.