paper aims to identify the trade agenda that represents Asia's concerns for the global and regional trading system. Asia, in … particular East Asia, has played an important role in evolving the global production and trade networks. The regional production … network in East Asia became the major transmission mechanism of the crisis, resulting in a trade collapse, but Asia …

.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of "trade first,money later …", recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous implementation of trade and monetary/financial accords. Given this … sequence, is there a case for monetary union in East Asia? Is there a case for expanded free-trade areas (FTAs) in the region …

As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements … participation of low-income countries and reduce trade-related business costs, particularly for small and medium enterprises. A … plausible regional trade arrangements. …

WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over … the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for …

Many economists tend to be skeptical of the merits of Free-Trade Areas (FTAs) due to their second-best nature, while … others support them under certain conditions, particularly as they allow for a more comprehensive treatment of trade- and … investment-related issues than is currently possible under the 149-member WTO. This paper endeavors to bridge this analytical …

When debating the pros and cons of economic regionalism, haven't we focused enough on trade in goods at the expense of … appropriate relationship between multilateralism and regionalism in the context of services. …

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the … actively pursuing trade liberalization with the Big Three. The central objective of this paper is to qualitatively and … quantitatively assess the different permutations of ASEAN’s free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Big Three (e.g., ASEAN-PRC, ASEAN …