. Meanwhile, many developing countries in the Asia Pacific relied more on traditional forms of protectionism. The result is a more …

multilateralize it. The paper first reviews free trade agreement (FTA) developments, and discusses the characteristics and motives of …

The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the … initiative could include three sets of issue: trade facilitation measures, an equitable investment regime, and effective …

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 …

small extent of intra-ASEAN trade, and the wide differences in economic size, development level, and industrial competence … strategies and external pressures (such as the formation of the European Union Single Market and the North American Free Trade … 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 …

This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in … a manner understandable to the non-specialist. Presently, these two Asian regions tend to trade preferentially with … distant markets. One of the reasons cited for the limited trade between themselves is that trade facilitation with trade …

This paper examines the changing relationship between trade policy, production networks, and economic growth in Asia …. It traces East Asia's rise to the coveted "Factory Asia" league with rapid growth over several decades through trade … Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and a multilateral approach under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT …

South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the … past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy …-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff barriers - and high trade costs due to inefficient "hard" and "soft …

This paper makes the case for the need to "upgrade" current analytical tools used for trade policy analysis and … trade theories and the latest firm-level trade statistics that are now becoming widely available. An upgraded "Trade Policy … Analysis 2.0" could contribute to several trade policy priorities and to a better understanding of the benefits from …