The nw Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) among Chile, New Zealand and Singapore may be a model for how members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) should proceed in agreeing on global rules for digital trade. The modular approach used in this fist ever “digital only” trade agreement may help the 86 WTO members negotiating on e-commerce resolve some of the seemingly intractable digital trade issues that stand in the way of a WTO agreement. For more than two decades, WTO members have been unable to negotiate specific rules or digital trade to include in the WTO treaty. Permitting negotiating countries to select among didigital commitments they are willing to assume at this time while establishing a WTO legal framework in which they can add to their commitments over time — as modelled in the structure of the DEPA — could enable WTO negotiators to make a breakthrough in current negotiations and conclude a basic agreement by the convening of the Twelfth WTO Ministerial Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, in late November 2021. The digitalcommitments made in this basic agreement could then be broadened and deepened thereafter to bring the WTO more fully into the twenty-fist century by setting out, for the fist time, global rules for digital trade. Agreement on digital trade rules could also prove anew that the members of the WTO are not only able to negotiate but they are also able to conclude negotiations successfully.