The future creation of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia has become the hot issue among trade policymakers in … the region. The APEC 2010 Summit Statement clearly states that the members should pursue a Free Trade Area of the Asia … (TPP). This paper considers the path or sequencing towards a future region-wide economic agreement in Asia, both …

between EU, US, and Japanese exports to Asia on the one hand and Asian and European exports to industrialized countries on the …

Food security is the broad area of the food for the forth coming generation. Asia's famous economic rise as the “global … trade agreements (FTAs), as trade-policy instruments in Asia, were largely absent in the region's trade policy architecture … during Asia's economic rise. Four main factors underlie the recent spread of FTA initiatives in Asia: (1) deepening market …