In May 2013 the ASEAN+6 countries began to negotiate the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The … as a base for a region-wide FTA. Finally, the paper examines the feasibility of the RCEP by consolidating the ASEAN+1 …

Serious efforts at economic integration among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members started only … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … Area) pressured ASEAN to form a free trade area (FTA) in 1992. The challenges of globalization, slow recovery from the …

In May 2013 the ASEAN+6 countries began to negotiate the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The … as a base for a region-wide FTA. Finally, the paper examines the feasibility of the RCEP by consolidating the ASEAN+1 …

Serious efforts at economic integration among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members started only … small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … Area) pressured ASEAN to form a free trade area (FTA) in 1992. The challenges of globalization, slow recovery from the …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper … integration, i.e., the realization of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. The paper then offers a view on how the grouping …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). It begins with a review of the historical evolution of ASEAN FTAs, which … captures the achievements of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) and the efforts meant to lead to a further step of deeper … integration, i.e., the realization of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. The paper then offers a view on how the grouping …

This paper examines the developments of three separate FTAs between ASEAN and the +3 countries. It is still unclear how …

agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that while the tariff reduction on all goods, including agriculture, in … ASEAN provides a marked advantage from the MFN tariff rates, intra-ASEAN agriculture trade have not been all that … significant. Most of the growth in the intra-ASEAN trade had come from trade in industry; and if total agriculture trade had …