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16 - Asian Trade Agreements in Services

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from Part IV - Diffusion across Economic Treaties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

By
Mark Manger
Edited by
Manfred Elsig ,
Michael Hahn  and
Gabriele Spilker
Manfred Elsig
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Michael Hahn
Affiliation:
Universität Bern, Switzerland
Gabriele Spilker
Affiliation:
Universität Salzburg
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Summary

This chapter takes stock of the dense network of trade agreements in services that has evolved in the East Asian region, and considers some of its prospects in the wake of the withdrawal of the United States from the TPP negotiations. Perhaps surprising for a region associated with booming economies, trade agreements in Asia have not always been driven by economic considerations. At the same time, it remains unclear if services trade has been as much a factor in trade agreement formation as in other regions. Based on DESTA data, the chapter shows that services trade (at least in its cross-border and consumption abroad modes) and PTA formation go hand-in-hand in Asia as well, even though the panoply of agreements remains divided by two different and possibly incompatible approaches, as some countries prefer positive lists and others prefer negative lists. With the United States choosing to withdraw from regional PTA projects for the time being, the positive-list approach looks to be the most common in the near future, while liberalization prospects may be limited.

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services tradeTrans-Pacific PartnershipAsia
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The Shifting Landscape of Global Trade Governance
World Trade Forum
 , pp. 388 - 406
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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