The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in … the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia … (TPP). This paper considers the path or sequencing towards a future region-wide economic agreement in Asia, both …

(RTAs) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Information sharing on RTAs is critically important because monitoring is … attempts to reveal those RTAs upon which the WTO fails to shed the light of the transparency exercise. While many studies have … attempt to identify the comprehensive picture of non-notified RTAs, with an emphasis on the Asia and the Pacific. Because …

While there is an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia, the majority of studies … in Asia. The noodle bowl of FTAs usually results in more options for traders and even can bring unexpected preferences … (such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and/or WTO architecture. …

In this paper, we will examine the level of services trade integration in Asia in comparison with Europe and North … America. The main empirical findings of this paper are that (i) the regional bias of services trade in Asia is as high or … higher than in Europe and North America; (ii) in Asia, the regional bias of services trade is higher than that of goods trade …

At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the … ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from …