between EU, US, and Japanese exports to Asia on the one hand and Asian and European exports to industrialized countries on the … protection on Asian competitors, the desire of Asian countries to negotiate free trade agreements (FTA) with the US and Japan …, and the EU’s response by probably entering into FTA negotiations with Asian countries, including ASEAN. …

expected to have ever more discriminatory effects to the detriment of dynamic non-member economies mainly in Asia but also in …

-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both … differences in factor endowments inside Asia but also differences in access conditions (trade policy). Growth in intra- Asian …