{"id":293936,"date":"2016-07-26T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2016\/07\/policy-options-podcast-16-technology-enabled-trade-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:28:34","slug":"policy-options-podcast-16-technology-enabled-trade-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2016\/07\/policy-options-podcast-16-technology-enabled-trade-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology-enabled trade in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce is revolutionizing the way we trade by giving businesses unprecedented access to new markets. Tools such as eBay have become the great equalizer of international trade: empowering small businesses in a globalized trade environment traditionally dominated by large firms. With so much to gain from these emerging trade patterns, Canadian trade policy can\u2019t afford to be stuck in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In a new IRPP study, authors Hanne Melin and Usman Ahmed argue that Canadian trade policies are creating obstacles for small businesses engaging in cross-border online trade. Using data from eBay between 2008 and 2013, they found that e-commerce businesses export at a much higher rate, reach more countries, and grow faster than do their offline counterparts. We caught up with Hanne to learn how the government can foster the growth of technology-enabled small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Hanne Melin and Usman Ahmed\u2019s IRPP study \u201cTechnology-Enabled Small Business Trade in Canada: New Evidence from eBay Marketplaces\u201d <a title=\"https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/aots6-ahmed-melin\/\" href=\"https:\/\/exit.sc\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Firpp.org%2Fresearch-studies%2Faots6-ahmed-melin%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">irpp.org\/research-studies\/aots6-ahmed-melin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-commerce is revolutionizing the way we trade by giving businesses unprecedented access to new markets. Tools such as eBay have become the great equalizer of international trade: empowering small businesses in a globalized trade environment traditionally dominated by large firms. With so much to gain from these emerging trade patterns, Canadian trade policy can\u2019t afford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":252445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"article-status":[],"irpp-category":[],"section":[],"irpp-tag":[],"class_list":["post-293936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Technology-enabled trade in Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2016\/07\/policy-options-podcast-16-technology-enabled-trade-in-canada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Technology-enabled trade in Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"E-commerce is revolutionizing the way we trade by giving businesses unprecedented access to new markets. 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