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Trade Facilitation in Regional Trade Agreements: Recent Trends in Asia and the Pacific

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  • Yann Duval

    (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP))

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The coverage of trade facilitation is found to have become very extensive, with the details of provisions in some agreements matching that in the draft WTO agreement on trade facilitation. Trade facilitation provisions and principles are increasingly seen to apply not only to Customs procedures but more generally, as reflected in the number of recent agreements featuring separate Trade Facilitation and/or Transparency chapters (or equivalent). Other trade facilitation measures that seem to be increasingly common include those on Automation/Use of ICT, Risk Management, Advance Ruling and Single Window. The ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) and its detailed commitment to implement a Trade Facilitation Work Programme stands out as it provides a concrete and specific way forward to ensure that progress is made towards actual implementation of the many trade facilitation measures mentioned in it.

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  • Yann Duval, 2011. "Trade Facilitation in Regional Trade Agreements: Recent Trends in Asia and the Pacific," Working Paper Series 211, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
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    1. United Nations ESCAP, 2012. "Trends in Trade Facilitation," STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT, in: Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2012: Recent Trends and Developments, chapter 4, pages 69-77, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
    2. United Nations ESCAP (ed.), 2011. "Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities," STUDIES IN TRADE AND INVESTMENT, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), number aptir2596, April.
    3. Lord, Montague & Artuso, Fabio & Record, Richard & Clarke, Julian, 2014. "Trading Costs in East Asia’s Global Value Chains," MPRA Paper 66437, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Jayant Menon, 2013. "Narrowing the development divide in ASEAN: the role of policy," Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, The Crawford School, The Australian National University, vol. 27(2), pages 25-51, November.
    5. Thomas Orliac, 2012. "The economics of trade facilitation [L'économie de la facilitation des échanges]," SciencePo Working papers Main tel-03681980, HAL.
    6. Patricia Sourdin & Richard Pomfret, 2012. "Trade Facilitation," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14596.

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    Keywords

    trade facilitation; regional trade agreements; RTA; bilateral; free trade agreements; FTA; free trade areas; customs; WTO; Asia; Pacific; paperless; single window; ICT;
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    JEL classification:

    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

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