imported good once its origin is determined. This study is done to cull the lessons from ASEAN's experience in determining and … practice in ROO regimes, focusing on RTAs where the ASEAN is involved. The paper presents findings from recent studies on the …

ASEAN member countries are moving toward achieving the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) with the timeline set at 2015. It …, progress among the ASEAN member countries in meeting their commitments has been uneven. This paper reviews the progress of the … Philippines in meeting its commitments on the AEC and comparing it with achievements of other ASEAN countries. The paper also …

ASEAN economies have long recognized the importance of developing a deep and broad domestic debt securities market to … to be desired. Among the five ASEAN member countries, Singapore's debt market is moving ahead of the rest, while those of … the Philippines and Indonesia lag far behind. The paper has identified some tasks that ASEAN economies must do to …

The paper discusses the ASEAN + 3 integration in the context of the literature on hub-and-spoke regionalism. It argues … that, provided proper rules of origin are incorporated, the different bilateral arrangements between ASEAN countries and … arrangements skirt the slow decision process which marks the 'ASEAN way' and create some sort of 'coalition of the willing' that …

agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that while the tariff reduction on all goods, including agriculture, in … ASEAN provides a marked advantage from the MFN tariff rates, intra-ASEAN agriculture trade have not been all that … significant. Most of the growth in the intra-ASEAN trade had come from trade in industry; and if total agriculture trade had …

implementation under regional arrangements, particularly the APEC and the ASEAN. Implementing competition policy is a big challenge … approaches to competition. In the ASEAN, difficulties in the development of competition policy are encountered due to the lack of …