Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

Event

Title:: PECC Trade Forum Meeting, APEC Study Centers Consortium Meeting
When:: 28 May, 2004 - 28 May, 2004
Where:: Chile, Valparaiso - Valparaiso
Category:: PECC Events

Description

Trade Forum Meeting
APEC Study Centers Consortium Meeting, Valparaiso, Chile, 2004

"The Challenges of APEC: Trade, Security, and Capacity Building".

LAEBA Sponsored PECC/ASC Seminarin Valparaiso, Chile 28 May 2004

Co-organized by
PECC Trade Forum
LAEBA (Latin America/Caribbean and Asia/Pacific Economics and Business Association)
Chilean APEC Study Center-Chile Pacific Foundation

The PECC Trade Forum joint sessions at the APEC Study Centre consortium meeting in Chile on 26-29 May, sponsored by LAEBA, a joint IDB-ADBI initiative to promote comparative research between Latin America and Asia Pacific, focused on "the next steps" in the Trade Forum’s work on RTAs, focusing on issues such as sequencing and possible harmonization in the transition from multiple RTAs to achievement of APEC’s objectives for the entire Asia-Pacific region. Taking advantage of the opportunity to hold a meeting in Latin America, panels gave special emphasis to possible lessons to be drawn from recent RTA experiences in the Americas especially with the FTAA.

Reflecting the new emphasis on "back to basics" in the WTO, the TF also featured sessions on services and agriculture.

PECC Trade Forum and LAEBA Panels

From Proliferating PTAs to APEC-Wide Liberalization:
Is There a Way Forward?

Conceptual and Policy Issues

The Sequencing of Regional Trade Initiatives in Europe and East Asia

Simon Evenett
The Sequencing of Regional Trade Initiatives in Europe and East Asia (2.21 MB)

Business and Policies on FTAA and Transpacific Business Linkages

Simon Evenett
Antoni Estevadeordal
Business and Policies on FTAA and Transpacific Business Linkages (91.56 kB)

Is there a Way Forward? Conceptual and Policy Issues

Jeff Bergstrand
Is there a way Forward? Conceptual and Policy Issues (123.34 kB)

Proliferating PTAs; What's the Problem?

Ernesto Tironi
Proliferating PTAs; What’s The Problem? (130.71 kB)

Linking Economic Partnership

Andrew Elek
Linking Economic Partnerships? (313.1 kB)

Marc Lanteign

Sequencing Issues in Practice

Sequencing Trade and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region

Antoni Estevadeordal
Sequencing Trade and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region (270.73 kB)

Thoughts on Sequencing of Preferential Trading Initiatives in the Asia Pacific Region

Robert Scollay
Thoughts on Sequencing of Preferential Trading Initiatives in the Asia-Pacific Region (162.09 kB)

Integrating Supporting Industries-APEC's Next Challenge

Dennis McNamara
Integrating Supporting Industries - APEC’s Next Challenge (116.92 kB)

Jean-Luc Le Bideau

The Economic analysis of International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia and Latin America: The Implication of Regional Trading Arrangements