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More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 have involved at least one (South or Southeast) Asian trading partner. Drawing on Baier and Bergstrand’s (2004) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World...
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Addressing technical barriers to trade is a key priority of ASEAN as part of trade facilitation in achieving the Single Market and Production Base under the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 and building an effective and competitive Economic Community beyond 2015. Standards and conformance...
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Interest in the trade and environment debate has intensified as a result of international trade agreements and because many proposed solutions to the climate change problem have potential implications for the global trading system. Clearly more empirical work is needed to inform the debate,...
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This paper explores various non-tariff measures (NTMs) that co-exist in China and that directly influence imports into … the country. Given the intensity and scope of technical measures imposed by China, the directional impacts of technical … barriers to trade (TBTs) on bilateral Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China exports are investigated empirically …
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China has achieved great success in its economic development since it has conducted economy-wide reforms and opened … itself to the outside world. Within less than three decades, China has now become a leading economy in the world, the second … which China receives the most FDI inflows, as well as the principal destination of its exports, with the US and Japan being …
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The 14th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Meeting was held in Hanoi, Viet Nam on November 18-19 under the theme of Toward a Dynamic Community for Sustainable Development and Prosperity. The theme conveys two messages : One is to enhance trade and investment in a rapidly...
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China and the two developing economies of Bangladesh and Myanmar (BCIM). The initiative to explore potential opportunities …
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China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory …, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and … produce commercial shale gas will have a crucial impact on the regional gas market and on China’s energy mix, as Beijing …
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This study examines the bilateral trade relations between New Zealand and China from 1980 to 2012. It examines the … growth in trade between New Zealand and China has been achieved since the signing of a free trade agreement in 2008.The … relations between New Zealand and China. …
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(FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that …
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