As mentioned above, this report def

As mentioned above, this report defines digital trade as U.S. domestic commerce andinternational trade in which the Internet and Internet-based technologies play a particularlysignificant role in ordering, producing, or delivering products and services. This definition was adopted to capture the wide variety of economic activities that are facilitated by or occur via the Internet.20 As reported in Digital Trade 1, however, there is no standard or generally accepted definition for “digital trade.”21 This report uses a broader definition of digital trade than that used for Digital Trade 1 to reflect input from public comments the Commission received during the course of these investigations. The Commission defined digital trade more narrowly in Digital Trade 1 as “commerce in products and services delivered over digital networks.” That definition excluded commerce in most physical goods, such as goods ordered online and physical goods that have a digital counterpart such as hard copy books and software, music, and movies sold on CDs or DVDs. As the Commission reported in Digital Trade 1, input from the public on that definition received at the March 7, 2013, hearing in