Though negotiations on an Association of Southeast Asian Nations – European Union (ASEAN-EU) trade agreement began in 2007, the region-wide agreement stalled, and the EU has since pursued bilateral agreements with individual ASEAN member states (AMS). Nevertheless, the goal to form an...

The China-ASEAN trade relationship is multidimensional. The trade situation between China and Vietnam is not similar to that of China and the ASEAN5, as the former records trade surpluses with Vietnam in agriculture and manufactures. Bilaterally, China's exports are also more homogeneously...

Arguably, leveraging on the intraregional market is important for a commodity like palm oil that has been constantly facing challenges to sustain global demand in extra-regional markets. The paper therefore compares intraregional export potentials for palm oil in two regions that are at the...

As a highly open or trade dependent economy, Malaysia has become very vulnerable to global market sentiment. The recent slowdown in external demand, the trade exposure to China and uncertainties over the trade policies of the United States, lower commodity prices and larger capital and...

This paper examines the univariate relationship between global linkages of the Malaysian manufacturing sector in the form of export intensity and intra-industry trade, respectively, on inter-industry concentration. The recently developed fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic...

This paper explores the global positions of China and India in merchandise trade. It first compares the integration models of China and India and, thereafter, examines the core factors that drive their trading relationships. With respect to their global trading partners, there are considerable...

The China-ASEAN trade relationship is multidimensional. The trade situation between China and Vietnam is not similar to that of China and the ASEAN-5, as the former records trade surpluses with Vietnam in agriculture and manufactures. Bilaterally, China’s exports are also more homogeneously...

This study decomposes the structure of Iran’s trade, ex-ante and ex-post economic sanctions. It employs two distinct methods of trade growth decomposition, intensive and extensive margins, as proposed in the literature. The major findings on Iran’s foreign exports spanning the period...