East Asian Preferential Trade Agreements in Services : Liberalization Content and WTO Rules

The past seven years have seen a rapid proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the East Asian region. Many of the recently concluded PTAs are comprehensive in their coverage, seeking not only the dismantling of barriers to trade in goods but also the liberalization of trade in servi...

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Main Authors:	Fink, Carsten, Molinuevo, Martin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Trade Policy International Trade Organizations F130 Economic Integration F150 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy Factor Movement Foreign Exchange Policy O240
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5740

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description	The past seven years have seen a rapid proliferation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the East Asian region. Many of the recently concluded PTAs are comprehensive in their coverage, seeking not only the dismantling of barriers to trade in goods but also the liberalization of trade in services. This paper offers an assessment of this recent wave of services agreements in East Asia, focusing on their liberalization content and their compliance with WTO rules on regional integration. It draws on a database in which the authors recorded the value added of PTA liberalization undertakings relative to pre-existing multilateral services commitments. Among other things, this database is used to empirically assess the effect of the scheduling approach on the depth and breadth of liberalization undertakings.
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title	East Asian Preferential Trade Agreements in Services : Liberalization Content and WTO Rules
title_short	East Asian Preferential Trade Agreements in Services : Liberalization Content and WTO Rules
title_full	East Asian Preferential Trade Agreements in Services : Liberalization Content and WTO Rules
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East Asian Preferential Trade Agreements in Services : Liberalization Content and WTO Rules

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