The ASEAN+3 proposal has attracted attention in Asia and the world. We argue that a free trade agreement (FTA) for … ASEAN+3 is beneficial to all member countries due to three factors: (i) existing and expected vertical foreign direct … investment linkage between Japan/Korea and ASEAN member countries, (ii) high expected growth rate of the Chinese economy, and …

each regional market develops market power and incentives to impose tariffs on the rest of the world. Alternatively … incentives for expanded trade; they can defeat the standard arguments for "optimal tariffs" and mitigate another negative feature …

each other. The methodology followed involved surveying each RTA in the sample to determine whether it made reference to … in each RTA is then used to classify agreements according to their level of IP content. The first significant identified …

/WTO up to 31 December 2012. In particular, it identifies those RTAs that modify the conditions applicable to the RTA partner … (either substantively or procedurally) in the event that a global safeguard is invoked. In the case of bilateral (or intra-RTA … of global safeguards, roughly a quarter of RTAs provide for the possible exclusion of the RTA partner, subject to certain …

of national treatment and market access and have compared directly commitments undertaken under the three families of … agreements. One may even note a certain tendency to a convergence towards the GATS model (e.g. the addition of market access …

This paper assembles detailed information on the market access provisions in trade in goods contained in 192 active … regional trade agreements (RTAs) notified to the WTO as of November 2010. Although market access provisions in trade in goods … across products or RTA parties. In some RTAs the degree of liberalization appears to be a negotiated outcome, depending on …