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 …

-Asian trade agreements. Our empirical review of CGE models revealed trivial effects of several possible EU-Asian accords (e.g., EU …-India, EU-ASEAN, EU-Republic of Korea). In part, this is a result of relatively small trade shares, open markets, and … detrimental to the EU, particularly in key sectors. The push toward a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific could be particularly …

cost effectively and more broadly. In line with this reasoning, we find in the data that less restrictive services trade … policies are associated with better human development outcomes across a range of sectors. Appropriate services trade …

's changing structure of trade, FDI and economy that underlay policy changes. We argue that until the late 1990s Japan adopted a …-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on the one hand and on the bilateral trade relationship with the US on the other. Although the … Japan-US bilateralism sometimes resulted in "managed trade" and encountered negative perceptions of the US approach in Japan …

Trade Organization, and the Financial Stability Board - and closer collaboration between global and regional organizations … institutions to promote macroeconomic and financial stability and deepen regional trade and investment integration. …

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 …