The rapid economic development and growth of the People’s Republic of China has accelerated the economic partnership and integration among China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, giving rise to a new Greater China Economy. Since signing the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) with Hong Kong...

On June 25, 2013, President Barack Obama of the United States announced his Climate Change Action Plan, listing the specific policy measures regarding one of the top-priority issues of his second term. One of the measures is initiating a trade negotiation on environmental goods, suggesting that...

The least developed countries (LDCs) are the poorest and the most disadvantaged members of the international community that face a broad range of socioeconomic, geographical, political, and environmental challenges. The United Nations defines LDCs based on three criteria: low gross national...

Since it was signed in April of 2007, and after undergoing additional negotiations in 2011, the Korea-U.S. FTA finally came into effect as of March 15, 2012, with the completion of the ratification process in the two countries after six years since negotiations began. Some were hopeful while...

Since March 2010, the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations have been taking place, where members have expanded into the 11 Asia-Pacific countries from the original Pacific 4 (P4: Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, and Brunei). The P4 has rooted in the P5, where...

This paper proposes to establish the Trilateral Economic Cooperation (TEC) with a view to strengthening the economic cooperation dialogue channels among China, Japan, and Korea. This TEC is expected to serve as a mid-term goal for achieving the Northeast Asian Economic Community and the East...

Ever since the 1990s, there has been a stream of unofficial studies and reviews discussing the possibility of a US-EU FTA. The average tariff rates for manufactured goods, however, in the US and EU are each a mere 2.0% and 2.4%, and both possess largely open economies. In this context it was...

Russian overseas direct investment (ODI) has been increasing rapidly in recent years, thanks to the continuous high oil prices phenomenon in the world and political stability in the nation since the early 2000s. Naturally, Russian ODI began to exhibit an upward trend since the early 2000s and...

With the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) and its coalition partner, New Komeito, securing a two-thirds "supermajority" in the lower house of parliament in the general election on December 16th 2012, the new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been advocating his new economic policy, so-called...