As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements … computable general equilibrium (CGE) model examines the economic impact of various types of FTAs in East Asia (among ASEAN+1's …, ASEAN+3, and ASEAN+6) finding that consolidation at the ASEAN+6 level would yield the largest gains to East Asia among …

-regions within Asia. Beyond a general trend towards manufactures, it reveals remarkable differences in specialisation profiles … manufactures, resource-intensive goods still play a larger role in intra-Asian trade than in trade outside Asia. This reflects both … differences in factor endowments inside Asia but also differences in access conditions (trade policy). Growth in intra-Asian trade …

FTAs in East Asia. It then analyzes the contents of major plurilateral FTAs in East Asia, that is ASEAN's five FTAs each …

trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the … under negotiation or in force. In this regard, Asia and the Pacific has developed a rapidly evolving regional economic … Economic Partnership (or ASEAN+6 RCEP), as well as the putative Free Trade Agreement of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP), which …

paper we explore the implications of such broad-based regional trade initiatives in Asia, highlighting the bridging of the … for East Asia is that China, Japan, and Korea be brought into any scheme for deeper regional integration. This matter … alone drives most of the income and trade effects in the East Asia region across all of our scenarios. The inclusion of the …

This paper discusses trade facilitation in the context of enhancing trading links between South and Southeast Asia, in …