The five chapters in this book deal with protection for consumer electronics in North America and its implications for Southeast Asia, focusing particularly on the consumer electronics industries in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.

The Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative (EAI), as envisaged in 2002 by the Bush administration, is set to be a landmark in U.S.-ASEAN trade relations. This study provides a detailed background and a map to the unfolding negotiations. It includes: a detailed review of the U.S.-ASEAN economic...

As part of its trade policy, Singapore has recently embarked on what can broadly be termed "new regionalism". This is characterized by its new-found desire to enter into Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the economic powerhouses (Japan and the United States in particular) as well as with a...

Summaries of eight papers that analyse the major economic problems and challenges concerning trade, investment and technology transfer faced by ASEAN countries specifically in their interactions with the United States and vice versa.

This study is part of an ESCAP/UNCTAD/UNDP regional project. The objectives for the Singapore case-study include identifying the products affected by the GSP withdrawal and assessing how Singapore can regain its competitiveness, which may involve the restructuring of such industries and, if need...

The organization of this study reflects the importance of such strategic factors as determinants of trade and investment. Chapter 2 focuses on the home environment of Japanese firms, and with comparisons drawn wih the US economy, illustrate how, as the economy has restructured and modernized in...

The economies of the six countries of ASEAN are small in comparison to that of the United States; together the ASEAN GDP is about 5 per cent of the US GDP. However, their rapid growth in the 1970s and early 1980s, and outward orientation make them more important than their sall size would...

Auch die deutschen Unternehmen, die keinen Konzernabschluss erstellen und nicht an die Börse wollen, stehen in weltweiter Konkurrenz zu ausländischen Unternehmen: in ihrem Jahresabschluss sollten deshalb Rechnungslegungsgrundsätze zugrundegelegt werden, die eine internationale...

Diese Buch soll eine rigorose und gleichzeitig praktische Verständnishilfe sein, die dazu dient, den Kunden am Markt besser zu begreifen. Durch die Integration von Analyse und Anwendung hilft das Buch sowohl Studenten als auch Praktikern bei der Fokussierung auf den Kunden und dabei, diese...