This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...

This paper selects one of the specific examples of free trade agreement in East Asia. This agreement is the world's largest FTA in the developing world and is the third largest FTA in the world in terms of nominal GDP of about 6 trillion dollars and the world's largest one in terms of population...

Japan and China's trade policy has historically centered on multilateralism. Over the past ten years, however, these two countries have shifted course somewhat by pursuing a number of free trade agreements (FTAs) and Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). As the two largest economies in Asia,...

The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences including the Buenos Aires meeting in December 2017 failed to reach agreement. The US Trump Administration launched a campaign to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China are economic partners as well as economic competitors. The ASEAN- People's Republic of China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), which is set to come into effect around 2010, is designed to boost trade between the two...