gional trade agreements apply to digital trade 
in goods and services and to cross-border data 
flows; 
(B) to ensure that— 
(i) electronically delivered goods and 
services receive no less favorable treatment 
under trade rules and commitments than 
like products delivered in physical form; 
and 
(ii) the classification of such goods 
and services ensures the most liberal trade 
treatment possible, fully encompassing 
both existing and new trade; 
(C) to ensure that governments refrain 
from implementing trade-related measures that 
impede digital trade in goods and services, re-
strict cross-border data flows, or require local 
storage or processing of data; 
(D) with respect to subparagraphs (A) 
through (C), where legitimate policy objectives 
require domestic regulations that affect digital 
trade in goods and services or cross-border data 
flows, to obtain commitments that any such 
regulations are the least restrictive on trade, 
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nondiscriminatory, and transparent, and pro-
mote an open market environment; and 
(E) to extend the moratorium of the World 
Trade Organization on duties on electronic 
transmissions. 
(7) REGULATORY
PRACTICES.—The principal 
negotiating objectives of the United States regarding 
the use of government regulation or other practices 
to reduce market access for United States goods, 
services, and investments are— 
(A) to achieve increased transparency and 
opportunity for the participation of affected 
parties in the development of regulations; 
(B) to require that proposed regulations be 
based on sound science, cost benefit analysis, 
risk assessment, or other objective evidence; 
(C) to establish consultative mechanisms 
and seek other commitments, as appropriate, to 
improve regulatory practices and promote in-
creased 
regulatory 
coherence, 
including 
through— 
(i) transparency in developing guide-
lines, rules, regulations, and laws for gov-
ernment procurement and other regulatory 
regimes; 
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(ii) the elimination of redundancies in 
testing and certification; 
(iii) early consultations on significant 
regulations; 
(iv) the use of impact assessments; 
(v) the periodic review of existing reg-
ulatory measures; and 
(vi) the application of good regulatory 
practices; 
(D) to seek greater openness, trans-
parency, and convergence of standards develop-
ment processes, and enhance cooperation on 
standards issues globally; 
(E) to promote regulatory compatibility 
through harmonization, equivalence, or mutual 
recognition of different regulations and stand-
ards and to encourage the use of international 
and interoperable standards, as appropriate; 
(F) to achieve the elimination of govern-
ment measures such as price controls and ref-
erence pricing which deny full market access for 
United States products; 
(G) to ensure that government regulatory 
reimbursement regimes are transparent, provide 
procedural fairness, are nondiscriminatory, and 
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