Southeast Asia In The Wto

Author : Razeen Sally
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Rahul Sen
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Elena Ianchovichina,Terrie Louise Walmsley
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Capital
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Impact of China's WTO Accession on East Asia by Elena Ianchovichina,Terrie Louise Walmsley Pdf

Abstract: China's World Trade Organization (WTO) accession will have major implications for China and present both opportunities and challenges for East Asia. Ianchovichina and Walmsley assess the possible channels through which China's accession to the WTO could affect East Asia and quantify these effects using a dynamic computable general equilibrium model. China will be the biggest beneficiary of accession, followed by the industrial and newly industrializing economies (NIEs) in East Asia. But their benefits are small relative to the size of their economies and to the vigorous growth projected to occur in the region over the next 10 years. By contrast, developing countries in East Asia are expected to incur small declines in real GDP and welfare as a result of China's accession, mainly because with the elimination of quotas on Chinese textile and apparel exports to industrial countries China will become a formidable competitor in areas in which these countries have comparative advantage. With WTO accession China will increase its demand for petrochemicals, electronics, machinery, and equipment from Japan and the NIEs, and farm, timber, energy products, and other manufactures from the developing countries in East Asia. New foreign investment is likely to flow into these expanding sectors. The overall impact on foreign investment is likely to be positive in the NIEs, but negative for the less developed East Asian countries as a result of the contraction of these economies' textile and apparel sector. As China becomes a more efficient supplier of services or a more efficient producer of high-end manufactures, its comparative advantage will shift into higher-end products. This is good news for the poor developing economies in East Asia, but it implies that the impact of China's WTO accession on the NIEs may change to include heightened competition in global markets. This paper"a product of the Economic Policy Division, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network"is part of a larger effort in the network to assess the impact of China's WTO accession.

Author : Richard Baldwin,Masahiro Kawai,Ganeshan Wignaraja
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Vinod Aggarwal,Shujiro Urata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136633386

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Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific by Vinod Aggarwal,Shujiro Urata Pdf

The Asia-Pacific region has witnessed a rapid rise in bilateral preferential trade agreements at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This trend could have potentially dramatic effects on the trading patterns of countries in the transpacific region and beyond. Some argue that these accords will spur multilateral negotiations, while others believe that they will irreparably damage the trading system. Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific examines the underlying political and economic factors driving these accords, based on a novel theoretical framework. Experts then provide overviews of political and economic trends in the region as well as detailed analysis of the trade strategies of Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Mexico. By systematically evaluating and assessing the driving forces underlying the turn to bilateral trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific, this book provides the first comprehensive analysis of this crucial phenomenon. Growing numbers of countries both in the region and elsewhere in the world are now considering further negotiation of bilateral trade accords. Understanding how these arrangements will fit or conflict with existing institutions in the Asia-Pacific and the WTO makes this book imperative reading for policy-makers and scholars.

Author : Christoph Antons,Reto M. Hilty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Supachai Panitchpakdi,Mark L. Clifford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031089790

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China and the WTO by Supachai Panitchpakdi,Mark L. Clifford Pdf

This work analyses the implications for world trade of China's entry into the World Trade Organization. It has taken fifteen long years of dialogue and heated debate and it will take its place among the other members at the end of 2001. This momentous event is relayed by the next WTO Chairman.

Author : Kym Anderson
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812300492

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Vietnam's Transforming Economy & WTO Accession by Kym Anderson Pdf

The unilateral and regional ASEAN and now APEC) trade and investment liberalizations pursued by Vietnam during recent years have begun transforming the economy. The next logical step is to join the World Trade Organization, an application for which was submitted in 1995. The WTO legal bindings will give traders and investors increased confidence in the reform programme. This book outlines what the WTO accession process involves, what policies Vietnam will have to change, and what the economic effects will be, particularly on rural development.

Author : Eul-Soo Pang
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814311991

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The U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement by Eul-Soo Pang Pdf

Free trade has become the mantra of development strategy for many countries in the world, especially those in the Asia Pacific. This book delves into the American side of the story. It is about how Singapore and the United States came to sign the agreement in 2003 (taking effect from 1 January 2004). The United States - Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) is the first FTA that America signed with an Asian country and the second such agreement with a fully developed country, after Canada. The city-state has used a free trade agreement as both a national survival and a growth strategy, first forging such FTA ties with its major trading partners and then expanding its strategic link to such extra-regional great powers as the United States, Japan, Australia, China, India, and the European Union. Both Singapore and the United States saw in FTAs something more than just merchandise trade.

Author : Barry Desker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:254482498

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The WTO After Cancun by Barry Desker Pdf

Author : World Trade Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Michael Ewing-Chow,Melanie Vilarasau Slade
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781785361890

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International Trade and Food Security by Michael Ewing-Chow,Melanie Vilarasau Slade Pdf

Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself. Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment, law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region - rice. It suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from the national to the regional and even the global level. It also provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of collective food security should be understood and developed. The book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as food security specialists by providing expert analyses and enlightening solutions for the future.

Author : Vinod K. Aggarwal,Kristi Govella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461447641

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Linking Trade and Security by Vinod K. Aggarwal,Kristi Govella Pdf

​The connections between trade and security are hardly new. Analysts and practitioners have clearly recognized this interrelationship since the mercantilist arguments of the 16th and 17th centuries. Despite wishful economic liberal thinking that might prefer to separate the political from the economic, it is widely recognized that trade and security are fundamentally interconnected in the foreign policy of states. Over time, as new forms of trade policy have come into being and the international security environment has evolved, the nexus of these two spheres has grown more complex and scholars have struggled to understand their interconnection This edited volume addresses linkages between trade and security by examining the influence of security factors in driving trade policy measures and the corresponding implications of different types of trade arrangements for international security. Ultimately, the project shows that several elements—traditional economic factors, traditional security factors, and human security factors—can affect the development of trade agreements and unilateral policies, and that trade policies may have both a direct and an indirect effect on traditional and human security. The project focuses on Asia, a region where economics is increasingly important but many security issues still linger unresolved, as a primary setting to test trade linkage theories. It also provides a comparative perspective through examination of how the EU and US have used their trade policies to achieve non-economic goals and how these policies have influenced their security environment. Case studies in this project cover key trade institutions and agreements including the World Trade Organization, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN Plus Three, the East Asia Summit, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and bilateral preferential trade agreements.

Author : Siow Yue Chia,Loong-Hoe Tan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Hubert Escaith,Satoshi Inomata,World Trade Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822039389416

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Trade Patterns and Global Value Chains in East Asia by Hubert Escaith,Satoshi Inomata,World Trade Organization Pdf

The increasing internationalization of supply chains is challenging our interpretation of conventional trade statistics, as traditional concepts such as country of origin or the distinction between goods and services become blurred. This publication, jointly produced by the WTO and the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), focuses on the factors that have helped to shape global productions.