Zhang, Yunling; Shen, Minghui - 2011
instrument of trade policy for members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The proliferation of FTAs is the result of a number … of factors, from the economic to the political. East Asia is with no exception involved in the process and witnessing the … ASEAN FTA (AFTA), and encouraged by ASEAN+1 (ASEAN plus one country) FTAs, more and more economies in east Asia are involved …