Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

Event

Title:: PECC Trade Forum Seminar
When:: 11 Nov, 2002 - 12 Nov, 2002
Where:: Canada, Vancouver - Vancouver
Category:: PECC Events

Description

PECC TRADE FORUM SEMINAR

DEVELOPING PATTERNS OF REGIONAL TRADING ARRANGEMENTS
IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS

Mckenzie I, Concourse Level
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
Vancouver, Canada

November 11-12, 2002

The proliferation of proposals for preferential trading arrangements has become a salient feature in the developing trade architecture of the Asia-Pacific region. Actual and potential developments, ranging from bilateral agreements to the possible formation of large trade blocs on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, pose important questions for the future path of economic relations within the region, and in particular for APEC and its vision of the Asia-Pacific region as a region of free and open trade and investment.

These developments also naturally provide a fresh focus for familiar questions about the relationship between preferential trading arrangements and the multilateral trading system centered on the WTO.

This seminar brings together leading PECC experts to consider the implications of these new developments. Presentations will reflect a range of perspectives from around the Asia-Pacific region, and the ensuing discussion and debate will explore the extent to which consensus can be reached on key issues. It is intended also that the seminar should result in a set of high quality papers that can be published as a PECC contribution to analysis and debate on this important subject.

The PECC Trade Forum has also set itself the task of exploring the possibility of developing a set of “APEC Principles” on RTA design and implementation. This could represent a PECC Trade Forum response to the call by APEC Ministers at Los Cabos for a “constructive exchange of views on … RTAs and FTAs”, elaborating the implications of the Ministers’ statement that these arrangements “should be consistent with both APEC’s principles and WTO rules”. Participants at the seminar will be encouraged to offer their views on feasibility and usefulness of such a project, and to indicate whether they would like to contribute to it.

November 11
1300 – 1515	Session 1: RTAs and the Evolution of Asia-Pacific Regionalism Chair: Dr Woo Yuen Pau, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
	Preferential Trade Arrangements and the Future of Asia-Pacific Economic Integration Dr Soogil Young, Vice-Chair, KOPEC; Research Advisor, Korea International Trade Association; Coordinator, PECC Finance Forum PTAs and the Future of Asia-Pacific Economic Integration (364.56 kB)
	Risks, Costs, Benefits and Opportunities in the New Developments Professor Christopher Findlay, Australian National University
	Emerging Trends Toward Deeper Integration in East Asia Professor Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto, Canada
	The Current “State of Play” in the FTAA Negotiations Dr Maryse Robert, Organization of American States The Current “State of Play” in the FTAA Negotiations (29.37 kB)
1530 - 1700	Session 2: Non-Traditional Perspectives on RTAs Chair: Fernando Gonzalez Vigil, Universidad del Pacifico
	Regional Public Goods Dr Antoni Estevadeordal, Inter-American Development Bank Trade and Cooperation: A Regional Public Goods Approach (318.05 kB)
	Developmental Affinities as a Rationale for Asia-Pacific RTAs Professor Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, University of Tsukuba, Japan Developmental Affinities and PE Spaces A framework to understand Asia-Pacific regionalism (111.14 kB)
	The Relation Between Regional and Multilateral Approaches to Liberalising Trade in Services Dr Sherry Stephenson, Organization of American States
1715 - 1915	Session 3: Strategic Perspectives Chair: Rob Scollay, University of Auckland
	Preferential Trade Agreements and Pacific Rim Economic Integration in a post-9/11 World: A View from the U.S. Professor Richard Drobnick, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
	Strategies Towards the Development of New Regional Trading Arrangements in East Asia Dr Hadi Soesastro, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia Strategies Towards the Development of New Regional Trading Arrangements in East Asia (41.46 kB)
	Implications of the New Regional Trading Developments for Asia Pacific Economic Integration: A View from North of the US Dr Woo Yuen Pau, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
	Strategies Towards Development of Preferential Trading Relationships: The Case of Chile Dr Hernan Gutierrez, University of Chile
November 12
0900 – 1030	Session 4: Practical Implications of the Spread of RTAs: Perspectives from East Asia and Latin America Chair: Dr Hadi Soesastro, Centre for Strategic and International Studies
	Reacting to East Asian Regionalism: A Perspective from Chinese Taipei Dr Rong-I Wu, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research Reacting to East Asian Regionalism: A Perspective from Chinese Taipei (172.16 kB)
	Facing Economic Integration on Two (or More) Fronts: The Situation of the Pacific Latin American Economies Professor Fernando Gonzalez Vigil, Universidad del Pacifico, Peru Facing the Challenge of Regionalism in the Pacific Islands (51.19 kB)
	Discussant: Professor Jean-Luc Le Bideau, Sorbonne University, France
1045 – 1200	Session 6: Asia-Pacific RTA Developments in Broader Perspective Chair: Dr Soogil Young
	The Wider Political and Strategic Context of Regional Trading Developments in the Asia-Pacific Professor Paul Evans, University of British Colombia, Canada
	Multilateralism in a Regionalizing World: NAFTA, FTAA, APEC and All That Dr John Curtis
	The Enduring Logic of Asia-Pacific Regional Integration Associate Professor Rob Scollay, University of Auckland The Enduring Logic of Asia-Pacific Regional Integration (20.39 kB)
	Additional Papers: Implications for the Multilateral Trading System of the New Preferential Trading Arrangements in the Asia-Pacific Region Prof. Peter Lloyd, University of Melbourne Implications for the Multilateral Trading System of the New Preferential Trading Arrangements (54.05 kB) Economic partnerships in East Asia: Globalization or Trading Blocs? Andrew Elek, The Foundation for Development Cooperation and The Australian National University Economic Partnerships in East Asia globalization or trading blocs? (46.42 kB) A Case for East Asian Cooperation Prof. Ippei Yamazawa, Institute for Developing Economies and Waseda University, Japan A Case for East Asian Regionalism (69.62 kB)

Venue

Venue:: Canada, Vancouver
City:: Vancouver
Country:: CANADA