Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions

This article examines the two-decade evolution of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the future prospects for Asian regionalism. It argues that while APEC retains advantages over competing regional structures, it should undergo reforms to accelerate the Bogor Goals and ensure its compl...

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Main Author: HSIEH, Pasha L.
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Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-31012017-03-30T03:28:18Z Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions HSIEH, Pasha L. This article examines the two-decade evolution of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the future prospects for Asian regionalism. It argues that while APEC retains advantages over competing regional structures, it should undergo reforms to accelerate the Bogor Goals and ensure its complementarity with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The article first analyzes the impact of stake-holding countries’ trade policies on APEC’s structure and development. By assessing APEC’s soft-law mechanism, it explores APEC’s WTO-plus contributions that reinvigorated the International Technology Agreement negotiations and improved supply chain facilitation. APEC’s goal of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) can overcome structural limitations and serve as an effective “Plan B” for the Doha Round impasse. Nonetheless, caution should be given to legal challenges to the pathways to an FTAAP such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Finally, the article calls for reforms that will enhance APEC’s institution-building and monitoring system. Such reforms will strengthen APEC’s role under the multilateral trading system and reenergize the public-private partnership for trans-Pacific integration. 2013-03-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1149 info:doi/10.1093/jiel/jgs045 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3101/viewcontent/ReassessionAPECRoleTransRegional_2013.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University APEC FTAAP TPP RCEP FTA China United States Doha regionalism Asian Studies International Trade Law Law and Economics
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topic APEC
FTAAP
TPP
RCEP
FTA
China
United States
Doha
regionalism
Asian Studies
International Trade Law
Law and Economics
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FTAAP
TPP
RCEP
FTA
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United States
Doha
regionalism
Asian Studies
International Trade Law
Law and Economics
HSIEH, Pasha L.
Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
description This article examines the two-decade evolution of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the future prospects for Asian regionalism. It argues that while APEC retains advantages over competing regional structures, it should undergo reforms to accelerate the Bogor Goals and ensure its complementarity with the World Trade Organization (WTO). The article first analyzes the impact of stake-holding countries’ trade policies on APEC’s structure and development. By assessing APEC’s soft-law mechanism, it explores APEC’s WTO-plus contributions that reinvigorated the International Technology Agreement negotiations and improved supply chain facilitation. APEC’s goal of creating a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific (FTAAP) can overcome structural limitations and serve as an effective “Plan B” for the Doha Round impasse. Nonetheless, caution should be given to legal challenges to the pathways to an FTAAP such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Finally, the article calls for reforms that will enhance APEC’s institution-building and monitoring system. Such reforms will strengthen APEC’s role under the multilateral trading system and reenergize the public-private partnership for trans-Pacific integration.
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author HSIEH, Pasha L.
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title Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
title_short Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
title_full Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
title_fullStr Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
title_full_unstemmed Reassessing APEC's Role as a Trans-Regional Economic Architecture: Legal and Policy Dimensions
title_sort reassessing apec's role as a trans-regional economic architecture: legal and policy dimensions
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2013
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1149
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