This paper documents the construction of BACI, our international trade database, which covers more than 200 countries … analysis. These measures of the reliability of reported data are used as weights in the reconciliation of each bilateral trade …

The number of bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) in East Asia has increased rapidly after the 2000 … in East Asia. A look at earlier studies on the impact of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (hereafter AFTA), the first regional … FTA in this region revealed that few studies found robust trade creation effects of AFTA in the 1990s. However, since the …

-specific rules of origin (RoO) on regional trade, using original data on rules applicable at the six-digit level of the harmonized … and sectors. The trade-weighted average is 2.09 percent. This moderate estimate is in line with the existing literature … relatively more trade-inhibiting rule than others. …

specific (per-unit) duties on patterns of agricultural trade. Specific duties may encourage countries to export higher priced … products, leading to an “Alchian-Allen effect” on unit values. Their restrictive effect on trade values is smaller for …

As the intra-ASEAN tariffs are virtually eliminated, it is the non-tariff measures and trade costs associated with … moving goods and services across border that hinder intra-ASEAN trade. This paper focuses on reviewing the state of trade … facilitation initiatives in ASEAN, especially on customs modernization, National Single Window, and National Trade Repository. The …