The idea of setting up an economic zone around the sea of Japan voiced for the first time over a decade ago is still in the limelight. An increasingly larger number of organisations and individuals are getting interested in the project and its implementation. The article sketches out the...

The establishment of customs zones has played an important role in expanding China's external economic relations in the first half of the 1990s. In all, 14 customs zones have so far been established in China, primarily around the port cities along the country's coastline. The articles discusses...