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 … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …

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 … among Asian economies that have formed Asian supply chains, called Factory Asia. It then considers ways and means of …

for today's integration of East Asia. The paper suggests that the spontaneous cooperation that created "Factory Asia" has …

East Asia can reach an East Asian FTA (EAFTA), which is the first step towards institutional economic integration. East … Asian Economic Regionalism attempts to analyze the feasibilities of economic integration in East Asia and to discuss … emerging economic integration efforts in East Asia with special reference to an East Asian FTA. Although economic integration …

the smooth functioning of "Factory Asia" - in particular for intraregional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … created Factory Asia is not subject to WTO discipline (bindings); (iii) there is no "top-level management"; to substitute for … WTO discipline, to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not spill over …