Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Wei, Shang-Jin - Center for Pacific Basin Monetary and Economic Studies, … - 1995
New regional initiatives abound, both outside Asia and within. Free Trade Areas in the West - notably NAFTA, its … possible enlargement into an FTA of the Americas, and the European Union - have implications for Asia. Asian manufacturers will … bilateral trade confirm the presence of implicit or de facto trade blocs in Asia and the Pacific, as in Europe and the Western …