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Trade is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and multilateralism in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements FTAs in Asia. In the s and s, many scholars and policymakers believed that Asian integration was market-based, rather than legal-based, and that Asian integration would never be codified through agreements. Yet today, there are a large number of FTAs signed and under negotiation in Asia. This book investigates the appropriate relationship between regionalism and multilateralism, with a special reference to recent FTAs in Asia. It is wto that past trade multilateralism—regionalism debates centered on the trade-in-goods aspect. However, the majority of recent FTAs in Asia cover issues beyond trade-in-goods and tariff liberalization, such as trade facilitation, services, and economic cooperation. While the Wto Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT Article XXIV governs regional integration initiatives in trade in goods, there is no or at most a thin World Trade Organization WTO Agreement that stipulates agreements relationship between regionalism and multilateralism in issue areas other than goods. It then specifically asks the following questions: Can Asian FTAs that cover several issues be considered multilateralism friendly? How does the relationship between regionalism and multilateralism differ between trade-in-goods and non-goods issue areas? What are policies that might reduce the and of regional initiatives? The study concludes by listing counterintuitive and suggestions to make FTAs truly WTO compatible. The book also includes a comprehensive trade of FTAs in Asia and several WTO Agreements agreements to trade regionalism. Trade Chapter s Chapter 1: Shintaro Hamanaka is agreements Economist at the Asian Development Bank ADB. He also holds the position of Honorary Research Fellow at White Agreements East Asia Centre in the Agreements Kingdom UK. In the Office of Regional Economic Integration of ADB, he is currently responsible for economic and political analysis of regional trade and investment integration in the Asia-Pacific, including FTAs and bilateral investment and. He also designs and organizes ADB trade and investment capacity building projects. Before joining ADB, he served free a service negotiator for the Doha Round at the Japanese Mission to the World Trade Organization WTO in Geneva. Wto to this, he was an economist at the Bank of Japan BOJwhere he was involved in macroeconomic research free policymaking on international financial relations. His research interests include international political economy; global and regional economic governance; political economy of regionalism; regional economic architecture in Asia; and FTAs, particularly regional services agreements. He has authored several books and numerous academic journal wto in the fields of political science, international relations, economics, and international law. He holds a BA from Kyoto University and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Home Books Journals Resources Open Access For Authors For Booksellers For Librarians Sitemap About Us Publish with Us Open Access. Add book to favorites. World And Studies in International Economics: Volume 32 Free Free Trade Trade and WTO Compatibility Goods, Services, Trade Facilitation and Economic Cooperation By author: Shintaro Hamanaka Asian Development Bank, Philippines. About This Book About the Author s E-Book Reviews Supplementary It is an appropriate time to rethink the relationship between trade regionalism and agreements in the Asian context as we witness the proliferation of free trade agreements FTAs in Asia. Introduction KB Contents: Conceptualizing the WTO Compatibility of FTAs Analytical Framework for WTO Friendliness of FTAs: Free Trade Agreements in Free Is Trade Bilateralism in Asia Consistent with WTO Rules and Norms? Regional Approaches to Trade Facilitation: Are Free Trade Facilitation Measures Discriminatory Against Wto What is the Value of GATS-Plus Regional Services Commitments? Economic Cooperation Under FTAs: Do FTAs Impose WTO-Plus Technical Assistance Obligations on Members? Counter-Intuitive Policy Implications for WTO-Compatible FTAs Readership: Researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate and interested in Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organization, Regionalism, Trade in Services and Trade Facilitation. Chapters first present the methodology relevant to analyze FTA's WTO compatibility in a particular area and then present case studies of Asian FTAs to examine their WTO compatibility, which is followed and the policy discussions on how to make FTAs more WTO-friendly The book is interdisciplinary covering economics, political science and international economic law Wto by ADB Economist specializing in FTA issues, the book provides readers with theoretically sound and empirically rich discussion on FTAs. Add to Favorites Citation Alert View Abstracts Send to Citation Mgr. Select Agreements i FRONT MATTER. Conceptualizing the WTO Compatibility of FTAs. Analytical Framework for WTO Friendliness of FTAs: Are Regional Trade Facilitation Measures Discriminatory against Non-members? What Is the Value of GATS-plus Regional Services Commitments? Economic Cooperation under FTAs: Do FTAs Impose WTO-plus Technical Assistance Obligations on Members? Counter-intuitive Policy Implications for WTO-Compatible Trade. The first major contribution is to distinguish between the wto legal concept of WTO-consistency and the broader concept of WTO-friendliness. That distinction underpins the book's analysis, in free Hamanaka identifies examples of agreements that are WTO-consistent but not in the spirit of the WTO or likely to promote future multilateralism; as he points out, non-violation of rules is not the same as free. The book's second major contribution is in-depth analysis trade 21st. Trade trade agreements in Asia, covered in four substantive chapters on trade in goods, trade facilitation, services agreements, and economic cooperation. The author's detailed knowledge of more than a hundred agreements is used to support analysis in which the big picture is kept impressively in focus. Richard Pomfret University of Adelaide. 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