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Practice question: Digital Platforms, Online Consumers and Merchants

Multiple Choice Hard Jurisprudence

Practice question

A retailer's own online store lists only a trade name and hides its physical business address and both phone and email contact details. It claims being an e-retailer, rather than an e-marketplace, removes the homepage disclosures in Section 23(f). Resolve.
  1. Only third-party platforms must ever disclose a business identity.
  2. Section 23(f) expressly imposes the listed homepage disclosures on an e-retailer.
  3. An own-site retailer is exempt from every ITA duty.
  4. A trade name alone necessarily satisfies all listed disclosures.
  5. The buyer must become a shareholder before requesting contact information.

Legal references

  • RA 11967, Internet Transactions Act, Sections 3-5 and 21-23: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/96902

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