Rules on digital trade are rapidly taking shape as countries in Asia-Pacific and beyond strive to secure the benefits … growing. Asia-Pacific economies are unevenly engaged in cooperation in digital trade rulemaking - East and South-East Asia … associated with e-commerce and the digitalization of trade in goods and services. At the multilateral level, the WTO holds …

benefits and limitations of the resulting Trade Facilitation provisions. Examining the impact of the recently concluded WTO …

regulatory issues affecting e-commerce have become more prominent in recent regional trade agreements (RTAs), the paper seeks to … and commitments have grown deeper and broader in more recent RTAs compared to earlier ones. Since RTAs have become … in on two recent RTAs, one involving the European union, and another the Unites States of America, as both are seen as …

are much stronger than the general case covering all RTAs in the world. In addition, as we control the trade effect of a … country's trade facilitation, which is ranked by the World Bank's logistic performance index, RTAs consisting of trade …The RTAs with trade facilitation provisions have been expected to generate a larger net trade-creating effect and …

framework of the World Trade Organization, which currently does not allow environmental challenges to be tackled effectively. …

In recent years, debates on international trade policy have focused on the role of the World Trade Organization and the … drive trade liberalisation. Also, the world's fastest growing economies are those Asian economies that have embraced free … respond by removing their own protectionism. Unilateral action, not trade negotiations, is the key: the world cannot wait for …

Indicators - which closely reflect the Trade Facilitation Agreement negotiated at the Bali WTO Ministerial Conference of December …

preferential tariff elimination. Based on a review of FTAs in Asia and the Pacific, this study provides detailed empirical analysis …