The paper aims to assess and determine the capacity-building needs required to liberalize trade in services in the Philippines. Through the ASEAN Framework on the Trade in Services, the Philippines has committed to liberalize various sectors including air transport, maritime transport,...

Free trade refers to a situation where a government does not attempt to restrict what its citizens can buy from another country or what they can sell to another country. The classical trade theories of Smith, Ricardo, and Heckscher-Ohlin predict that the consequences of free trade provide both...

Over the past decade China has experienced active construction of its FTA network. Simultaneously, China has attached great importance to boosting the development of its services industry and services trade. These two areas converge when it comes to the liberalization of the services trade...

This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...

This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...