Methodology: The Digital Trade Restrictiveness Index (DTRI) measures how 64 countries restrict digital trade. The DTRI is based on a wide spectrum of digital trade policies, covering more than 100 categories of policy measures. The index is based on the Digital Trade Estimates database that the European Center for International Political Economy has developed and that is freely available for anyone to use. The database and the index are clustered around four larger areas of digital trade policy, namely: fiscal restrictions and market access; establishment restrictions; restrictions on data; and, finally, trading restrictions. The DTRI ranges between 0 (completely open) and 1 (virtually closed).
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