Under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries responded with various trade measures to prevent shortages … of essential goods and ensure product quality and safety. COVID-19 trade measures were used to facilitate or restrict … trade performance across countries, then increase or decrease the gap between trade actual and trade potential. During the …

Free trade agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia in recent years. As of December 2008, eight bilateral FTAs … utilization. Firms either do not fully understand or are not knowledgeable about the existing FTAs. There are some trade …

The Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea) continues to promote an open-trade system via the conclusion of free trade …

macroeconomic management, development finance, trade, and financial stability. The authors argue that reforms currently being …

because their economies are so large and the size of the associated bilateral trade imbalances with the United States (US) so … the reciprocal General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) market-access bargain … explore US attempts to reduce the bilateral imbalances through targeted trade policies intended to slow growth of US imports …

The global financial and economic crisis has affected East Asia mainly through the trade channel. The region remains … bilateral trade and economic agreements since the late 1990s. The trigger point for regionalism in East Asia appears to be the … regional trade architecture include Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)+3 and ASEAN+6 for East Asia, the Free Trade …

The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation … costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile …, greater trade is expected to play a key role in recovery, and in sustaining growth afterwards. The crisis offers an excellent …

The global economic crisis has affected the East Asian economies via trade and investment. The export-led model which … Europe to regional and domestic demand. Regional trade integration has been market-led through production networks and … foreign direct investment (FDI). Since the proliferation of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTA) and …

possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …