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Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world - but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an up-to-date assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the region. Featuring a collect...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Findlay, Christopher C. (Christopher Charles) (Editor ), Urata, Shūjirō, 1950- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific 2009.
Colección:World Scientific studies in international economics ; v. 11.
Temas:
Free trade > East Asia.
Free trade > Pacific Area.
Libre-échange > Pacifique, Région du.
Free trade
East Asia > Commercial treaties.
Pacific Area > Commercial treaties.
Pacifique, Région du > Accords commerciaux.
East Asia
Pacific Area
Commercial treaties
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Overview
  • 1. Free Trade Agreements in East Asia
  • 1.1. Rapid expansion of FTAs
  • 1.2. Characteristics and motives of FTAs in East Asia
  • 2. Objectives of the Research Project
  • 3. Major Findings
  • 3.1. Quality of FTAs
  • 3.2. Impacts of FTAs
  • 4. Future Research Agenda
  • References
  • 1. Rules of Origin and Agricultural Trade Liberalisation in Major Free Trade Agreements I. Cheong and J. Cho
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Descriptive Overviews of ROO
  • 2.1. Theoretical survey on ROO
  • 2.2. Descriptive analysis of ROO in major FTAs
  • 3. Empirical Assessment of ROOs
  • 3.1. Analysis on index components
  • 3.2. Assessment of restrictiveness of ROO
  • 4. Agricultural Liberalisation in Major FTAs
  • 4.1. FTAs by Western countries
  • 4.2. FTAs by Japan and Korea
  • 4.3. ASEAN8211;China FTA
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • 2. Services in Free Trade Agreements R. Ochiai, P. Dee and C. Findlay
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Formand Content
  • 2.1. Regional characteristics of form
  • 2.2. Negative-list versus positive-list approach8212;Contents
  • 2.3. The GATS template versus the NAFTA template
  • 3. Domestic Regulation
  • 4. Market Access and National Treatment
  • 5. Comparison Between Bilateral and Multiple Member Agreements
  • 6. Rules of Origin
  • 7. Overall Evaluation on Liberalisation
  • 8. Summary
  • Appendix
  • References
  • 3. Analysis of the Restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment in Free Trade Agreements S. Urata and J. Sasuya
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Methodology
  • 3. Results and Discussion
  • 3.1. Degrees of restrictions
  • 3.2. Assessment by country
  • 3.3. Types of restrictive measures
  • 3.4. Restrictions on different sectors
  • 4. Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix
  • References
  • 4. A Comparison of the Safeguard Mechanisms of Free Trade Agreements A. Kotera and T. Kitamura
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Bilateral and Regional Safeguard Mechanisms
  • 2.1. The basic idea and structure of safeguard mechanisms
  • 2.2. The intrinsic nature of bilateral and regional safeguard mechanisms
  • 2.3. Analysis and evaluation of the selected safeguard mechanisms
  • 2.4. Analysis of the selected bilateral and regional safeguard mechanisms
  • 3. Classification of the Selected Bilateral and Regional Safeguard Mechanisms
  • 3.1. No general safeguard type
  • 3.2. Quasi-global safeguard type
  • 4. Final Remarks
  • Appendix
  • References
  • 5. Assessing the Economic Impacts of Free Trade Agreements: A Computable Equilibrium Model Approach K. Abe
  • 1. The Theoretical Framework and the Simulation Model Adopted
  • 1.1. Surveys on the impacts of an FTA
  • 1.2. Location effects and regional disparity
  • 1.3. Other dynamic effects of an FTA on economic growth and welfare
  • 1.4. Framework of the adopted simulation model
  • 1.5. Accumulation effect measured by a CGE model
  • 1.6. The global trade analysis project model
  • 1.7. The plan for simulations in this paper
  • 2. The Simulations of Japans Existing and Future Bilateral FTAs
  • 2.1. Trade and tariff structures of the three countries of Japans existing FTAs
  • 2.2. Details of simulations and technical assumptions
  • 2.3. Macroeconomic impacts
  • 2.4. Impacts on sectors
  • 3. Simulations of the Future Scenarios of Japans FTAs
  • 3.1. Static simulation
  • 3.2. Results of static simulation.

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