Inter-ASEAN
| Item title | Author | Description | Language | Accession Number |
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| Toward a Consolidated Preferential Tariff Structure in East Asia: Going Beyond ASEAN+1 FTAs | Fukunaga, Yoshifumi | Discusses possible template for trade in good chapters of so-called ASEAN++ Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Deals with tariff structure under current ASEAN+1 FTAs. Recommends further efforts by ASEAN countries and their FTA partners to meet 90% or 95% tariff elimination thresholds. Emphasizes on level of tariff eliminations, common concession and the level of commitment, possibility for special and differentiated treatments, approaches to non-tari ...Continue Reading | English | 84797 |
| Liberalization of Trade in Services: Toward a Harmonized ASEAN++FTA | Ishido, Hikari | Discusses the consolidation of ASEAN by East Asian countries to develop so-called ASEAN++ Free trade Agreement (FTA). Emphasizes service trade liberalization in this new trade agreement.Suggests a policy option of narrowing the service trade limitations, looking for the needs of prioritizing production related service sector. Contains brief explanation of service destruction index of ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS) and ASEAN+1 FTA, ...Continue Reading | English | 84793 |
| East Asia on a Road Toward a Community | Paisan Rupanichkij | Traces the relation and cooperation in East Asia from the past to present. Analyzes the concepts and factors supporting the regional groupings in East Asia, citing the East Asia Economic Group (EAEG) proposed by Malaysia in 1990. Summarizes the relations between ASEAN and China, Japan, South Korea before the cooperation framework of ASEAN+3. Examines the development of ASEAN+3 which is the important mechanism for driving the East Asian coopera ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84730 |
| ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change , Academic Forum on 26 September 2011 at Nonthaburi | Academic Forum ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change (2011 : Nonthaburi) | Compiles information on ASEAN, dealing with 10 ASEAN member countries, ASEAN+3 (China, South Korea, Japan), ASEAN+6 (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand). Mentions benefits from ASEAN liberalization, particularly the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. Highlights the social development and social welfare of Thai society towards ASEAN. Covers topics on children and youth, gender equality, disabled people, human traffi ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84453 |
| ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change , Academic Forum on 26 September 2011 at Nonthaburi | Academic Forum ASEAN Liberalization 2015: Thai Society Adapts to Change (2011 : Nonthaburi) | Compiles information on ASEAN, dealing with 10 ASEAN member countries, ASEAN+3 (China, South Korea, Japan), ASEAN+6 (China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand). Mentions benefits from ASEAN liberalization, particularly the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) in 2015. Highlights the social development and social welfare of Thai society towards ASEAN. Covers topics on children and youth, gender equality, disabled people, human traffi ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84453 |
| Improving Cooperation on Trade and Investment with ASEAN New Member Countries, Seminar on 21 February 2001 at Royal River Hotel, Bangkok | Seminar on Improving Cooperation on Trade and Investment with ASEAN New Member Countries (2001 : Bangkok) | Describes background and objectives of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), covering ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), e-ASEAN agreement, ASEAN Investment Area (AIA), ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Scheme (AICO), ASEAN framework agreement of the facilitation of goods in transit, ASEAN economic cooperation (AEC), and the protocol regarding the implementation of the CEPT scheme temporary exclusion list. Mentions the joint statement on Ea ...Continue Reading | Thai | 84435 |
| The Construction of Regional Institutions in the Asia-Pacific and East Asia: Origins, Motives, and Evolution | Komori, Yasumasa | Analyzes the formation of the regional arrangements: the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and the ASEAN+3 (APT). Proposes an institutionalist framework that addresses two related questions: why are regional institutions created, and how are they created? Explores the variation of state preferences concerning regionalism among key governments. Argues that the urgent governmental demand for both APEC and APT was driven by the defensive ...Continue Reading | English | 84335 |
| ASEAN-China Free Trade Area | Chia Siow Yue | Looks at the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in the context of the rise of China and its WTO accession. Analyzes the developments in ASEAN economic integration, mentioning the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS), and ASEAN Investment Area (AIA). Examines ASEAN-China economic relations in the areas of trade, investment, and competition for foreign direct investment. Mentions features of the Framework A ...Continue Reading | English | 84304 |
| ASEAN-China Free Trade Area | Chia Siow Yue | Looks at the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) in the context of the rise of China and its WTO accession. Analyzes the developments in ASEAN economic integration, mentioning the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS), and ASEAN Investment Area (AIA). Examines ASEAN-China economic relations in the areas of trade, investment, and competition for foreign direct investment. Mentions features of the Framework A ...Continue Reading | English | 84304 |
| ASEAN’s Expansion: The ARF, EAS and A+3 | Hammond, Blaec | Explains why ASEAN came to lead three regional organizations the ASEAN-led ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), ASEAN Plus Three (ASEAN+3) and East Asia Summit (EAS). Provides reasons for the ASEAN expansion i.e. ASEAN's unrivalled experience, the circumstances of APEC's formation, and threats to state sovereignty. Deals with ASEAN's formation, the expansion to Indochina, the ARF, and the EAS. Considers Indochina's economic liberalization, the 1997 Asi ...Continue Reading | English | 84252 |
| Annual Report 2002-2003 Association of Southeast Asian Nations | Reports the achievement of ASEAN during 2002-2003, highlighting the chapters on regional peace and stability, economic integration and cooperation, human and social development, transnational issues, and ASEAN external relations. Deals with the cooperation in the areas of trade, investments, services, tourism, industry, small and medium enterprises, intellectual property, finance, transportation, energy, ICT and telecommunications, Initiatives f ...Continue Reading | English | 84218 | |
| Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization: International Politics and Institution-Building in Asia | Ciorciari, John D | Analyzes Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization's (CMIM) basic institutional features and related international politics. Reflects both progress and the continuing political challenges of building regional institutions in Asia. Argues that the most important interactions have occurred between richer and poorer economies, between China and Japan, and between Asian officials and their Western counterparts, especially at the U.S. Treasury and t ...Continue Reading | English | 84099 |
| Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s? | Batra, Amita | Presents the economic rationale for a regional trade bloc in Asia, covering the ASEAN economies and four countries: China, Japan, Korea, and India. Considers the potential strength of ASEAN+4 and trends in intra-regional trade. Looks at the case for India in ASEAN+4, evaluating the formation of the ASEAN+4 trade bloc in terms of their efficiency costs. Determines efficiency costs by the extent of trade distortion and trade diversion implied by ...Continue Reading | English | 84083 |
| Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s? | Batra, Amita | Presents the economic rationale for a regional trade bloc in Asia, covering the ASEAN economies and four countries: China, Japan, Korea, and India. Considers the potential strength of ASEAN+4 and trends in intra-regional trade. Looks at the case for India in ASEAN+4, evaluating the formation of the ASEAN+4 trade bloc in terms of their efficiency costs. Determines efficiency costs by the extent of trade distortion and trade diversion implied by ...Continue Reading | English | 84083 |
| Desirable and Feasible Option for an East Asia FTA | Describes the needs, obstacles, and options for East Asia FTA (EAFTA). Considers ASEAN's role in moving towards an EAFTA. Reviews rules of origin (ROOs) in existing FTAs, analyzing expected benefits from the consolidation of rules of origin. Looks at trade in goods, giving a comparison between AFTA and ASEAN+1 FTAs, i.e. ASEAN-China FTA (ACFTA), ASEAN-Korea FTA (AKFTA), and ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (AJCEP). Dea ...Continue Reading | English | 83998 | |
| Desirable and Feasible Option for an East Asia FTA | Describes the needs, obstacles, and options for East Asia FTA (EAFTA). Considers ASEAN's role in moving towards an EAFTA. Reviews rules of origin (ROOs) in existing FTAs, analyzing expected benefits from the consolidation of rules of origin. Looks at trade in goods, giving a comparison between AFTA and ASEAN+1 FTAs, i.e. ASEAN-China FTA (ACFTA), ASEAN-Korea FTA (AKFTA), and ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (AJCEP). Dea ...Continue Reading | English | 83998 | |
| ASEAN and the New Regional Multilateralism: The Long and Bumpy Road to Community | Simon, Sheldon W | Studies the implications for Asia's future, considering how ASEAN will be able to maintain their pivotal position in Asian affairs. Looks at the framework of conceptualizing ASEAN, and the evolution of ASEAN. Explains how terrorism challenges the non-interference norm. Looks at the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), ASEAN+3, and the East Asia Summit (EAS). Concludes that ASEAN and the ARF, as cooperative security arrangement designed to enhance comm ...Continue Reading | English | 83899 |
| Regionalism As an Engine of Multilateralism: A Case for a Single East Asian FTA | Kawai, Masahiro | Studies economic integration and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) initiatives in East Asia, highlighting the progress of market-driven regional economic integration in East Asia through trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Deals with factors underlying FTA initiatives, mentioning key groupings involving East Asia i.e.: ASEAN and APEC, ASEAN+3, East Asia Summit (ASEAN+6), and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). Summarizes characteristics of East Asian ...Continue Reading | English | 83583 |
| Regionalism As an Engine of Multilateralism: A Case for a Single East Asian FTA | Kawai, Masahiro | Studies economic integration and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) initiatives in East Asia, highlighting the progress of market-driven regional economic integration in East Asia through trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). Deals with factors underlying FTA initiatives, mentioning key groupings involving East Asia i.e.: ASEAN and APEC, ASEAN+3, East Asia Summit (ASEAN+6), and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). Summarizes characteristics of East Asian ...Continue Reading | English | 83583 |
| East Asian Community? | Yupa Klungsuwan | Describes the concept of regional cooperation among European Union (EU), ASEAN, and ASEAN+3. Mentions the main elements of ASEAN such as ASEAN Summit, ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM), ASEAN Economic Ministerial Meeting (AEM), ASEAN Standing Committee (ASC), and ASEAN Secretariat. Highlights ASEAN cooperation on free trade, considering ASEAN relations with China, Japan, and Republic of Korea. Analyzes ASEAN's path compared with EU, presenting f ...Continue Reading | Thai | 83571 |
