Trade Forum
Meeting
APEC Study Centers Consortium Meeting, Valparaíso, Chile, 2004
"The Challenges of APEC: Trade, Security, and Capacity Building".
LAEBA Sponsored PECC/ASC Seminar
in 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
(For complete set of papers please go to the ASC website: http://www.funpacifico.cl/study_center.htm)
From Proliferating PTAs to APEC-Wide Liberalization: Is There a Way Forward?
Conceptual and Policy Issues
| Simon Evenett | The
Sequencing of Regional Trade Initiatives in Europe and East Asia
Business and Policies on FTAA and Transpacific Business Linkages (joint submission with Antoni Estevadeordal) |
| Jeff Bergstrand | Is there a Way Forward? Conceptual and Policy Issues |
| Ernesto Tironi | Proliferating PTAs; What's the Problem? |
| Andrew Elek | Linking Economic Partnership |
| Marc Lanteign |
Sequencing Issues in Practice
New Preferential Developments in Asia Pacific
| Fernando Gonzalez Vigil | |
| Hernan Gutierrez | |
| Yang Zerui | China's FTA Developments |
| Maki Okabe-Aoki | New Issues in FTAs: The Case of Economic Partnership Agreements Between Japan |
| Won Ho Kim | Korea's FTA Initiatives in the Asia Pacific |
| Gerardo Translosheros | Economic Partnership Agreement Mexico-Japan |
Back to Basic: Key Negotiating Themes
Services
| Sherry Stephenson | New Template for Regional Agreements in Services |
| Anthony Kleitz | Domestic Regulation for Services: Making Progress through Regional Trade Arrangements |
| Somkiat Tangkitanich | Agreements on Telecom in Recent FTAs |
| Maryse Robert | New Features in Investment Agreements and their Relevance for Services and the Right to Regulate |
| Rodrigo Rojo | Chile's Experience on Services Sectors |
Agriculture