In November 2012, the leaders of the ASEAN+6 countries agreed to launch a new FTA negotiation called the "Regional … Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP). In this paper, we conduct stocktaking studies of ASEAN's own FTA and five existing FTAs … FTAs. Also, the China-Japan-Korea FTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pose challenges to the "ASEAN Centrality". We …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the success of progressive services liberalization under the ASEAN China FTA … this analysis to the other ASEAN+1 FTA and RCEP negotiations, as well as the need to address GATS-minus commitments found …

In this paper, we measure the costs for utilization of free trade agreement (FTA) tariff schemes. To do that, we use … tariff schemes. We propose several measures as a proxy for the FTA utilization costs. The example includes the minimum amount … of firm level saving of tariff payments, i.e. trade values under FTA schemes multiplied by the tariff margin, in all …

We examine the firm-level impact of the use of free trade agreement (FTA) schemes on import prices by employing firm …-level import data that enables us to identify the use of different tariff schemes, such as FTA schemes and most favoured nation … (MFN) schemes. Unlike the previous studies, we estimate the firm-level effects of FTA use on import prices by controlling …

’s accession to the ASEAN-China FTA (HK-ACFTA) by implementing tariff elimination, logistics, enhancement, and reduction in service …