The role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in East Asia’s recovery from the recent global financial and economic crisis highlighted the PRC’s growing role as an engine of growth for the region. From the viewpoint of the PRC, there are many potential gains from entering into free...

Expanding trade with East Asia’s "Big Three" economic giants - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Japan, and the Republic of Korea - offers a new potential source of growth for ASEAN in the post-global-crisis period. In fact, ASEAN has been actively pursuing trade liberalization with the...

This paper examines Korea's use of temporary trade barriers, mainly antidumping measures, before and during the global financial crisis of 2008-9. Using the Temporary Trade Barriers Database (Bown 2010b), we determined that the stock of imported products subject to antidumping duties in Korea...