Trade Competitions among the Top Exporting Partners in the ASEAN Market: Focusing on Agro-food Commodities

The ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) which North Korea has participated in since 2000 and the East Asian Summit (EAS) have attempted to address security concerns

The focus on a highly integrated and cohesive economy will push forward attempts to complete and enhance ASEAN’s existing economic integration initiatives, such as the ASEAN Trade

- Akiko Yamanaka (Special Advisor to the President Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA),

o Modern: The RCEP builds on the existing ASEAN Plus One FTAs (ASEAN’s FTAs with the five partners) and accounts for emerging trade realities including:

External trading partners know the reality that ASEAN is not a common market, making it easier for countries such as the US to pull out of the

As set out in the 2007 ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 1 , the envisaged characteristics of ASEAN as an economic community are: (a) a single market and production base;

It reviews (a) the importance of services trade and the current state of ASEAN services and trade integration and it potential (Chapter 1); (b) services trade policies,

10 Indeed, looking at the report on ‘Gender Dimensions of the ASEAN Economic Community’ published in 2016, ASEAN, similar to the World Bank, regards the gender