Artificial Intelligence and international trade: Some preliminary implications

Janos Ferencz, Javier Lopez Gonzalez and Irene Oliván García

No 260, OECD Trade Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has strong potential to spur innovation, help firms create new value from data, and reduce trade costs. Growing interest in the economic and societal impacts of AI has also prompted interest in the trade implications of this new technology. While AI technologies have the potential to fundamentally change trade and international business models, trade itself can also be an important mechanism through which countries and firms access the inputs needed to build AI systems, whether goods, services, people or data, and through which they can deploy AI solutions globally. This paper explores the interlinkages between AI technologies and international trade and outlines key trade policy considerations for policy makers seeking to harness the full potential of AI technologies.

Keywords: Data flows; Digital trade; Innovations; Regional Trade Agreements; Trade policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04-22
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