FTAs. Also, the China-Japan-Korea FTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pose challenges to the "ASEAN Centrality". We …In November 2012, the leaders of the ASEAN+6 countries agreed to launch a new FTA negotiation called the "Regional … Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP). In this paper, we conduct stocktaking studies of ASEAN's own FTA and five existing FTAs …

excludes USA. Charts show relatively declining US role, rising China role as key trade partner for Japan, Korea, ASEAN …. Responding to China¡¯s lead, as in its ASEAN trade deals, and shaped by former USTR Zoellick, there is growing US support for … bilateral trade agreements, including Korea-US FTA, though most economists oppose bilateral/regional approach as inconsistent …

been scrambling for an FTA with ASEAN. China-led regional FTA and Japan-led FTA in an uncooperative game are likely to … generate hub-spoke bilateralism in East Asia. East Asia should work out an ASEAN + China, Japan, Korea FTA that could set the … and some regional monetary cooperation. Although belatedly, South Korea has taken a highly proactive multi-track FTA …

. WTOs TRIMs Agreement. The provisions of ASEAN framework on investment area and industrial cooperation are summarized in …

Until recently, most Japanese considered the gaining momentum of Asian economic integration in the frame of ASEAN+3 …. With India maintaining a high economic growth rate and its population being predicted to overtake China as the most … political and economic counterbalance to China, the Japanese government has also put effort in vitalizing the Japan …

agriculture trade flows in the case of ASEAN. It finds that while the tariff reduction on all goods, including agriculture, in … ASEAN provides a marked advantage from the MFN tariff rates, intra-ASEAN agriculture trade have not been all that … significant. Most of the growth in the intra-ASEAN trade had come from trade in industry; and if total agriculture trade had …

India has an emerging web of cooperation with East Asian countries, especially ASEAN through the ASEAN-India dialogue …-Ganga cooperation and the BIMST-EC. In this discussion paper the ASEAN Secretary-General focuses on the need to develop a partnership … between ASEAN and India that has the dual objectives of addressing the challenges of globalisation and working closely to reap …

Nations (ASEAN) free trade agreements (FTAs). The move towards the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 and the attempts to … broaden FTAs in East Asia present major challenges to ASEAN. Ultimately, it is desirable for ASEAN to draw a clear picture of … how the architecture of ASEAN FTAs in 2030 can be given shape. …