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A Divergent Path of Industrial Upgrading: Emergence and Evolution of the Mobile Handset Industry in China
Imai, Ken'ichi; Shiu, Jingming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than 40 percent of the current world production. While export growth has been overwhelmingly led by multi-national corporations (MNCs), increasingly fierce competition in the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534134
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Domestic Market-based Industrial Cluster Development in Modern China
Ding, Ke - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
make the case that under modern China’s market conditions, the local public sector is the crucial driving force for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222486
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Food safety control system of Chinese eel exports and its challenges
Mori, Romio; Nabeshima, Kaoru; Yamada, Nanae - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper analyzes factors associated with the rejection of products at ports of importer countries and remedial actions taken by producers in China. As an example, it uses one of the most competitive agro-food products of China: live and processed eels. This paper provides an overview of eel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668197
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Toward an inclusive and a little bit ethical world trading system : listening to the voices of the people in LDCs
Sato, Kan Hiroshi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
least developed countries (LDCs). Since the inception of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations in 2001, the WTO and …. However, this is inadequate; for the proposed ‘DDA-MDGs hybrid’, a super AfT is needed. The WTO, other development …. 2 includes infrastructure projects either gran aid, ODA loans and private investment. This is in accordance with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147334
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Normative Influences of "Special and Differential Treatment" on North-South RTAs
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by … incorporated into the GATT/WTO legal framework so as to permit the derogation of most-favored-nation (MFN) obligations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988421
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Rethinking special and differential treatment in the WTO
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Special and differential treatment (S&D) allows differentiated treatment for developing countries within the WTO system … predecessor of the WTO) in the 1960s, S&D has played a significant role in promoting the integration of developing countries into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721549
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Response of local producers to agro-food port rejection : the case of Chinese vegetable exports
Yamada, Nanae; Sui, Shuyan - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper analyzes the factors associated with the rejection of products at ports of importer countries and remedial actions taken by producers in China by taking as an example one of the most competitive agro-food products of China: frozen vegetables. This paper provides an overview of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686240
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Border Industry in Myanmar: Turning the Periphery into the Center of Growth
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
The Myanmar economy has not been deeply integrated into East Asia’s production and distribution networks, despite its location advantages and notably abundant, reasonably well-educated, cheap labor force. Underdeveloped infrastructure, logistics in particular, and an unfavorable business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534126
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Rules of Origin and Local Content in East Asia
Kuroiwa, Ikuo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
Rules of Origin (RoO) are an integral part of all trade rules. In order to be eligible for Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions relative to local content. The paper tries to calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534130
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Myanmar's Economic Relations with China: Can China Support the Myanmar Economy?
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006
Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their economic relations have also grown stronger throughout the 1990s and up to 2005. China is now a major supplier of consumer and capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534132