This book analyzes existing trade agrements in the region and their product coverage, particularly agricultural products, as well as associated tariff and non-tariff barriers.

A handbook for trade indices and indicators

While the IPN phenomenon has accelerated trade and investment linkages between countries in East and South-East Asia, the remainder of the region has not matched those countries in this process. The objective of this study is to explore the reasons for this by using India’s performance in the...

This publication aims to point out how services sector reforms have benefited the poor, and more generally, how regulatory reforms in services have increased the opportunites for more inclusive growth.

This publication brings together the main research outputs delivered under a common theme "Regional trade agreements and international production networks" of the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) research programme, Phase II (2008-2010). The study was divided into...

Since countries have continued to liberalize trade both unilaterally and as part of the implementation of preferential trade agreements during the past decade, import tariff costs now often account for a very small share of the overall trade costs faced by traders in Asia and the Pacific –...

this chapter provides recommendations on arriving at a meaningful multilateral agreement on trade facilitation.

this chapter provides a comparative analysis of the broader trade facilitation needs of Fiji and a selection of Asian developing countries.