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The impact of Japan’s rivalry with China on its willingness to pursue free trade agreements

Chum, Sonya - In: Journal of East Asian economic integration 18 (2014) 3, pp. 215-251

This study explores the main causes that have led Japan to conclude an FTA with ASEAN. This paper appraises Japan‐ASEAN … relations and shows that closer relations between Japan and ASEAN have provided momentum for the launch of Japan's FTAs with … ASEAN. Consequently, this paper explores the origins and progress of Japan‐ASEAN FTA, as well as the strategies and …

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Multilateral Trading System on Crossroads

Jolevski, Zoran; Andreska-Bogdanovska, Biljana; … - 2022

In recent years we have witnessed the crisis in the multilateral trading system, primarily because of the inability of the Doha Development Agenda to produce results after 17 years of negotiations. The reasons are complex large number of participants in these negotiations which complicates...

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ASEAN integration in 2030: United States perspectives

Heng, Pek Koon - 2012

architecture led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) - was motivated by four changes in the regional economic … landscape: (i) the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and emergence of the ASEAN+3 grouping; (ii) the rise of the People's Republic … TPP trade negotiations. The second is represented by the Asia-only ASEAN+3 framework, a shallowly institutionalized …

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ASEAN Integration in 2030 : United States Perspectives

Heng, Pek Koon - 2012

architecture led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) — was motivated by four changes in the regional economic … landscape: (i) the Asian financial crisis of 1997 and emergence of the ASEAN 3 grouping; (ii) the rise of the People's Republic …

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ASEAN integration in 2030 : United States perspectives

Heng, Pek Koon - 2012

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Institutional parameters of a region-wide economic agreement in Asia : examination of Trans-Pacific Partnership and ASEAN+α Free Trade Agreement approaches

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2010

-Pacific (FTAAP), building on various ongoing regional cooperation formworks including ASEAN+3 or +6 and the Trans-Pacific Partnership … and considers three existing economic agreements - ASEAN+Alpha free trade agreements, the TPP, and the Asia-Pacific Trade …

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Post-TPP Trade Policy Options for ASEAN and Its Dialogue Partners : 'Preference Ordering' Using CGE Analysis

Ji, Xianbai - 2018

Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and his “America First” trade agenda ignite a second round of interest in mega-free trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific. Countries are evaluating alternative trade policy actions in a post-TPP era. Using national real GDP gains...

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The Doha Round: "death-defying agenda" or "don't do it again"?

Harbinson, Stuart - 2009

Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or unable to make the hard decisions which would bring the Round to a conclusion. Meanwhile, the world has changed dramatically with the onset of a...

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EU-African Economic Relations : Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?

Kohnert, Dirk - 2008

Promising growth rates, increased trade, and competition among major global players for African resources have boosted the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed countries remain vulnerable to external shocks....

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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