Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP). In this paper, we conduct stocktaking studies of ASEAN's own FTA and five existing FTAs …In November 2012, the leaders of the ASEAN+6 countries agreed to launch a new FTA negotiation called the "Regional … with 6 dialogue partner countries, to identify the possible benefits and challenges of RCEP. We find that the five "ASEAN+1 …

this analysis to the other ASEAN+1 FTA and RCEP negotiations, as well as the need to address GATS-minus commitments found …The aim of this paper is to evaluate the success of progressive services liberalization under the ASEAN China FTA …

FTA in this region revealed that few studies found robust trade creation effects of AFTA in the 1990s. However, since the …-tariff measures, trade facilitation and coordination of rules of origin, and improvement of FTA usability--are more important measures … sufficiently investigated because of shortage of data. We found that trade creation effects of ASEAN-China FTA (ACFTA) and ASEAN …

Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The "Coverage Index" defined in this paper highlights similarities and differences among … for a well-connected RCEP. …

’s accession to the ASEAN-China FTA (HK-ACFTA) by implementing tariff elimination, logistics, enhancement, and reduction in service …

In this paper, we measure the costs for utilization of free trade agreement (FTA) tariff schemes. To do that, we use … tariff schemes. We propose several measures as a proxy for the FTA utilization costs. The example includes the minimum amount … of firm level saving of tariff payments, i.e. trade values under FTA schemes multiplied by the tariff margin, in all …

We examine the firm-level impact of the use of free trade agreement (FTA) schemes on import prices by employing firm …-level import data that enables us to identify the use of different tariff schemes, such as FTA schemes and most favoured nation … (MFN) schemes. Unlike the previous studies, we estimate the firm-level effects of FTA use on import prices by controlling …