The aim of this article is to understand the dispute settlement mechanism in the ASEANChina Free Trade Agreement, hereinafter ACFTA. The ACFTA consists of ten ASEAN members plus one, namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand,...

This paper conducts a detailed critical analysis of the dispute settlement mechanisms in ASEAN's external economic agreements with China, Japan and Korea by reviewing the main procedural rules of these mechanisms. The paper also discusses the difference among these agreements, and compares them...