through regional collaboration in the form of bilateral and regional trade agreements. Regional cooperation and integration … can facilitate the way for expanding markets and creating trade opportunities. However, market-led integration in South … highly integrated trade, investment, and production space. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC …

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 …

This paper studies how East Asia's trade composition and orientation have changed over the past decade and analyzes the … Asia has successfully consolidated its role as the "Global Factory." Furthermore, studying East Asia's recent trade …

for Pacific economies when participating in the world economy. The paper first describes the evolution of trade flows of … the Pacific economies over the last decade, in terms of both trade in goods and services. It then introduces two new … connections within the Pacific and with the rest of the world. Combining both datasets with the corresponding trade flows allows …

Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade … development are also positively associated with SMEs joining GVCs. Furthermore, increased exposure to international trade …

and Caribbean (LAC) countries, their trade and investment ties are still in their very early stages, and the … complementarity of factor endowments dominates their bilateral trade pattern. By examining the determinants of trade performance of … direct investment (FDI)-based intra-industry trade. Policies that encourage deep economic integration would help Latin …

of a systematic analysis of precrisis trade patterns. The analysis is motivated by the decoupling thesis, which was a … issues: Was the East Asian trade integration story that underpinned the decoupling thesis simply a statistical artifact or … of trade credit, which overpowered the cushion provided by intra-regional trade? What are the new policy challenges faced …

We used the United States (US) International Trade Commission's uniquely detailed 1995-2007 PRC customs data to better … understand the pattern of trade between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its two largest trading partners, Japan and the … US. Our review finds that only a small share of these flows can be characterized as arm's length, one-way trade in final …

international trade data or input-output tables, but such aggregate data cannot explain how the networks actually operate. With the …

providing a brief overview of international trade statistics, the paper reviews a number of academic papers concerning (i) the …