Free trade agreements in the Asia Pacific / edited by Christopher Findlay, Shujiro Urata.

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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Other Authors: Findlay, Christopher C. (Christopher Charles) (Editor), Urata, Shūjirō, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific 2009.
Series:World Scientific studies in international economics ; v. 11.
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505 0 |a 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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