Yoshi Kodama
Asia Pacific Economic Integration and the GATT/WTO Regime (2000)

Book Description
This work presents a detailed analysis of the application of the WTO rule on regional arrangements to the current attempts at co-operation in the Asia Pacific region and makes recommendations for an institutional framework for economic integration in the region. The author argues that a framework for regional co-operation must be flexible in allowing for differential sub-regional arrangements and for a development-oriented trade policy, which has been common in some countries in the region. This thesis is based on a comprehensive account of the history and development of regional co-operation, and of the region's diversified economies and export-oriented development needs. The work concludes with a suggested institutional structure for an Asia Pacific regional arrangement, with particular regard for the compatibility with GATT/WTO rules, including specific recommendations regarding trade and investment liberalisation, economic harmonisation and dispute settlement.

Asia Pacific Economic Integration and the GATT/WTO Regime will be of interest to academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an interest in trade, economic and development law.

• Preface.
• Introduction.
• 1. The GATT/WTO Rule on Regional Arrangements and the Current International Economic Regime.
• 2.The History and Current Development of Inter-State Co-operation in the Asia Pacific Region.
• 3. Diversity Amongst Economies in the Asia Pacific Region.
• 4. Export-Oriented Development Policy in Newly Industrialised Economies in the Asia Pacific Region.
• 5. A Possible Regional Arrangement in the Asia Pacific Region.
• Conclusions.
• Index

Published by Kluwer Law International, The Hague.
Price:USD 165.00
The book may be purchased at: http://www.kluwerlaw.com

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