Digital trade describes commerce conducted, delivered or enabled through digital means. It has no settled definition, and the disagreement is not a drafting inconvenience but the live question itself. Does the term mean trade in digital products such as software, media and services delivered electronically? Trade in physical goods ordered or arranged through digital channels? Or cross-border flows of data, including data that is an input to something else? States negotiate this boundary directly, because it determines what any resulting rules would reach — whether commitments touch data localisation, source code, electronic payments, or only the delivery of intangibles. Until a specific instrument names its own scope, treat the phrase as a placeholder, and in a contract or policy document define what you mean rather than relying on it.
Why this entry carries no source list. This lexicon cites an official primary source wherever one exists and says plainly where none does. No body defines this term: it is commercial vocabulary, and what it means in any particular deal is whatever the document says. Citing a bank’s product page, an insurer’s brochure or a consultancy’s explainer would dress one firm’s usage as a general rule. The paragraph above therefore ends by naming what to read instead of the word.