Baldwin, Richard; Kawai, Masahiro - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013
Motivated by the proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) in Asia over the last decade, this paper studies the … challenges faced by the Asian “noodle bowl”—overlapping, multiple trade rules, regulations, and standards in Asia—in the process … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …