Arbeitspapier
Asian FTAs: Trends and challenges
Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the noodle bowl problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha negotiations and the global financial crisis, however, Asian regionalism seems to be here to stay and the focus for policymakers should be how best to minimize the costs of FTAs while maximizing their benefits. Adopting a pragmatic perspective, this paper examines key trends and challenges in Asian FTAs. It provides new evidence from firm surveys, analysis of specific agreements, and computable general equilibrium estimates. It makes a case for strengthening the support system for using FTAs, rationalizing rules of origin and upgrading their administration, ensuring better coverage of agricultural trade, forging comprehensive WTO-plus agreements, and encouraging a region-wide FTA. Political economy considerations suggest that a likely scenario is for FTA consolidation in Asia to be followed by connections with North America and Europe. In conclusion, a bottom-up approach to a Doha Round Agreement emerges from the analysis.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: ADBI Working Paper ; No. 144
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Integration
Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
- Thema
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Freihandelszone
Handelsregionalismus
Asien
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kawai, Masahiro
Wignaraja, Ganeshan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
- (wo)
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Tokyo
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Kawai, Masahiro
- Wignaraja, Ganeshan
- Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
Entstanden
- 2009
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