East Asia has rapidly become the third centre of gravity for global economic activity. North America is relatively well integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy developments over the next decade or so will strengthen...

This paper seeks to understand why the US-EC farm trade dispute has been so difficult to resolve, and whether the Blair House accord of November 1992 will sufficiently satisfy not only those two parties, but also other GATT contracting parties to enable the Uruguay Round to be brought to a...

This paper examines the impacts of key trade reforms likely to affect the APEC region over the next decade. It does so by taking an economy-wide perspective using projections to the year 2005, based on the global CGE model known as GTAP. The paper begins by showing that the empirical impact of...