The role of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in East Asia’s recovery from the recent global financial and economic crisis highlighted the PRC’s growing role as an engine of growth for the region. From the viewpoint of the PRC, there are many potential gains from entering into free...

This paper examines Korea's use of temporary trade barriers, mainly antidumping measures, before and during the global financial crisis of 2008-9. Using the Temporary Trade Barriers Database (Bown 2010b), we determined that the stock of imported products subject to antidumping duties in Korea...

Nevertheless, they kept up efforts to form various integration schemes, such as the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The Customs Union was basically the first successful case of economic integration among CIS countries. The formation of the trilateral union was completed by...