Asean In The Wto

Author : Razeen Sally
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812302687

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Southeast Asia in the WTO by Razeen Sally Pdf

In this large-scale ISEAS study, Razeen Sally looks at Southeast Asia in the World Trade Organization, against the background of national trade policy trends post-Asian crisis, sluggish ASEAN economic integration, and the recent high-speed proliferation of bilateral and regional trade negotiations. ASEAN co-operation in the WTO has broken down, with little prospect of revival. Nevertheless, Sally argues forcefully that Southeast Asia needs a liberal, rules-based multilateral trading system; and that the WTO needs active Southeast Asian participation. ASEAN countries should forge multiple coalitions, revolving around the United States and China, to restore workability and purpose to a lame, crisis-ravaged WTO. This would provide headwind for what matters most: unilateral (national) trade-and-investment liberalization and pro-competitive regulatory reforms to revive and enhance policy competitiveness in the region.

Author : Siow Yue Chia,Loong-Hoe Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822023822117

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ASEAN in the WTO by Siow Yue Chia,Loong-Hoe Tan Pdf

Author : Richard Baldwin,Masahiro Kawai,Ganeshan Wignaraja
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783479283

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A World Trade Organization for the 21st Century by Richard Baldwin,Masahiro Kawai,Ganeshan Wignaraja Pdf

ø Policy makers will benefit from the expert knowledge and policy lessons presented in this book, and development economists and researchers will profit from its critical examination of the world trading system. Undergraduate and postgraduate studen

Author : Van Hoa Tran,Charles Harvie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782543503

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Regional Trade Agreements in Asia by Van Hoa Tran,Charles Harvie Pdf

Tran Van Hoa and Charles Harvie present this timely and original study of the likely effects of new regional developments in Asia.

Author : Joseph L.H. Tan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789813055155

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AFTA in the Changing International Economy by Joseph L.H. Tan Pdf

This timely volume reviews the rapidly changing international economic environment and raises a range of issues and concerns pertaining to recent developments and the future of AFTA, ASEAN Free Trade Area. Part one is devoted to thematic analyses and perspectives dealing with trade; enlarging the ASEAN regional grouping; and relations with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Part two analyses AFTA in a wider comparative perpectives, examining relationships with the major trading patners of ASEAN, namely the United States (and more broadly NAFTA); Japan; and the European Union.

Author : Chia Siow Yue,Joseph L.H. Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472504197

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Asean in the WTO by Chia Siow Yue,Joseph L.H. Tan Pdf

Author : Eugen Dimant
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640820290

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The Transition from Bilateral to Multilateral Free Trade Agreements As a Multiplier Process by Eugen Dimant Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 97.5%, Ottawa University, course: Multinational Business Policy, language: English, abstract: Stemming from the ongoing globalization, the process of global integration and international trade has accelerated ever since. Where back in the days the trade was more or less bounded to inter-regional trade with customers, partners and countries in close proximity, nowadays goods are shipped throughout the world, costs of transportation have decreased, time to market has increased and thus the needs and desires can be served almost instantly throughout the world particularly because of the continuous support of the WTO, where "a plethora of bilateral and regional trading and economic cooperation agreements have been mushrooming globally, and increasingly in the Asia-Pacific, generating a wave of "new regionalism" in Asia" (Sen; Srivastava 2009: 194). Concerned by the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998, the ASEAN countries were under the impression of a slowdown in pace of trade liberalization and thus this put pressure on these countries to engage sustainably in mutual beneficial trade and economic integration. By that, "at a theoretical level regional economic integration is being taken to mean deepening of intra-regional trade, expansion of mutual foreign direct investment (FDI) and harmonization of commercial regulations, standards and practices." (Ekanayake; Veeramacheneni 2009: 2). This proceeding integration in ASEAN has mainly been motivated by the intention to create an attractive production base and to satisfy the rising competitive challenge on the part of China and India for both, domestic and foreign companies. (Hew; Sen 2004: 1-2). The impact especially of the ASEAN countries has raised over time, mainly in comparison to the OECD countries. "At the same time that developing Asia‟s share in ASEAN trade has been rising substantially (from about one-third t

Author : Bibek Debroy,Debashis Chakraborty
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8171885381

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The Trade Game by Bibek Debroy,Debashis Chakraborty Pdf

Looking at the negotiating strategies of India and several other WTO members over the years, this volume explores the negotiating scenario and the concerns for India and other developing countries. The introduction notes that judging by the experience of Cancun (2003) and the recent Hong Kong Ministerial (2005), developing countries are fast emerging as quick learners of the rules of the game, but need to sharpen those skills further: "It is quite prudent to understand that hidden from public glare, both the battle and the war will now continue in Geneva, which is less of a free trade bastion than Hong Kong. It is by now a time-honoured fact that the intensity of liberalisation undertaken at home makes handling the WTO-induced reforms easier, and the priorities for Indian policy makers are therefore, obvious. Notwithstanding the WTO objective, even eleven years after the inception of the multilateral body, the trade barriers, both in developed and developing countries are quite significant and unilateral liberalisation is not easily forthcoming. Although this lack of market access hurt the developing countries much more severely than their developed counterparts, the former group never systematically bargained at the negotiating table with the latter before the Doha Ministerial (2001). Looking at the negotiating strategies of India and several other WTO members over the years, the nine papers in this volume explore the current negotiating scenario and the concerns for India and other developing countries. While some papers attempt to chalk out the future of global free trade and the determinants of protectionism of major players, the other ones look into the future of India's sectoral negotiating strategy.

Author : Rahul Sen
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812302502

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Free Trade Agreements in Southeast Asia by Rahul Sen Pdf

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are often considered as one of the building blocks for regional economic integration. This book details the concluded as well as ongoing FTA initiatives of Singapore, highlighting the benefits to the Singapore economy.

Author : Ryokichi Hirono
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812302014

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Asian Development Experience Vol 3 by Ryokichi Hirono Pdf

As ASEAN Vision 2020 proclaims, the members of ASEAN have achieved remarkable success in economic growth, stability and poverty reduction, over the past decades. There are, however, still diverse debates as to the factors which contributed to the success, with no conclusive assessment. This volume reviews the domestic reforms effectively introduced by ASEAN members after the 1997 financial crisis and what could be done to accelerate such reforms. With the entry of the 4 new members into ASEAN, possible measures to strengthen both intra- and extra-ASEAN regional cooperation frameworks are sought so that the 10 ASEAN members can make a smooth economic and social transformation to tackle globalization and accommodate the two highly competitive giant economies, China and India. The study also seeks to identify what could be the role of Japan in promoting its economic relations with the ASEAN-10 under the ongoing framework of the WTO and the ASEAN-Plus-Three in the light of the current trend towards greater regionalism in Europe and the Americas.

Author : Sanchita Basu Das,Masahiro Kawai
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814695442

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Trade Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific by Sanchita Basu Das,Masahiro Kawai Pdf

Asia has witnessed a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) since the turn of the millennium. The first regional agreement — the ASEAN FTA — was transformed into the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of 2015. In the meantime, ASEAN forged five ASEAN+1 FTAs and began to negotiate a sixteen-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement. In parallel, the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), supporting U.S. foreign policy of “Pivot to Asia”, was broadly agreed in October 2015. The RCEP and the TPP are accompanied by other mega-regional integration processes developing elsewhere in the world, including the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership for the European Union and the United States, and the Pacific Alliance among four Latin American member states. Meanwhile, APEC is also striving to meet its Bogor Goal targets and create a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. Each of these mega-regionals aims to achieve greater trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and more harmonized trade and investment rules so that all member economies can participate in the global value chain of production. Instead of undermining, these regional exercises can be building blocks for a more liberal global trading system supported by the World Trade Organization. This book ruminates on these regional agreements, their economic and strategic rationales and challenges during negotiations and afterwards. The book brings together eminent scholars and experts to deepen our understanding of the complex nature of the mega-regional trade agreements and their implications. It is useful both for the academic and research community and for policymakers who focus on trade and economic cooperation issues.

Author : Christoph Antons,Reto M. Hilty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642308888

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Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region by Christoph Antons,Reto M. Hilty Pdf

This book is highly topical. The shift from the multilateral WTO negotiations to bilateral and regional Free Trade Agreements has been going on for some time, but it is bound to accelerate after the WTO Doha round of negotiations is now widely regarded as a failure. However, there is a particular regional angle to this topic as well. After concluding that further progress in the Doha round was unlikely, Pacific Rim nations recently have progressed with the negotiations of a greatly expanded Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that includes industrialised economies and developed countries such as the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, recently emerged economies such as Singapore, but also several developing countries in Asia and Latin America such as Malaysia and Vietnam. US and EU led efforts to conclude FTAs with Asia-Pacific nations are also bound to accelerate again, after a temporary slowdown in the negotiations following the change of government in the United States and the expiry of the US President’s fast-track negotiation authority. The book will provide an assessment of these dynamics in the world’s fastest growing region. It will look at the IP chapters from a legal perspective, but also put the developments into a socio-economic and political context. Many agreements in fact are concluded because of this context rather than for purely economic reasons or to achieve progress in fields like IP law. The structure of the book follows an outline that groups countries into interest alliances according to their respective IP priorities. This ranges from the driving forces of the EU, US and Japan, via Asia-Pacific resource-rich but IP poor economies such as Australia and New Zealand, recently emerged economies with strong IP systems such as Singapore and Korea to leading developing countries such as China and India and ‘second tier industrializing economies’ such as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Author : World Trade Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:745696763

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Trade Patterns and Global Value Chains in East Asia by World Trade Organization Pdf

Author : Peter C.Y. Chow
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785360046

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Path to Free Trade in the Asia-Pacific by Peter C.Y. Chow Pdf

Mega-regionalism in the Asia Pacific has led to the formation of several emerging trade blocs, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This book, in addition to the examination of trade policies in the region, offers a comprehensive analysis of ongoing developments such as the impact of new members on the incumbent TPP-12 and its spillover to third parties, as well an objective study of the crucial issues of liberalization of agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and intellectual property rights.

Author : Mitsuo Matsushita
Publisher : Cameron May
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dispute resolution (Law)
ISBN : 9781874698647

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WTO and East Asia by Mitsuo Matsushita Pdf

Comprises 19 articles grouped under four headings: Reflection on the WTO system; Experience of East Asian memebers in the WTO system; East Asian perspectives on the WTO issues; and Regional economic integration.