Regional cooperation and free trade agreements in Asia / / edited by Jiaxiang Hu, Matthias Vanhullebusch.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hu, Jiaxiang (Law teacher),; Vanhullebusch, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Asian Law Series 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (431 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The rise of Asia and the dynamics of Asian economic development have impacted global trade relationships and regional cooperation tremendously. While the WTO integrating national economies into global trade regulations has further liberalized trade relationships between developed and developing nations and amongst the emerging economies in particular in Asia, proliferation of free trade agreements in Asia has raised growing concerns regarding the fragmentation of the world economic order. World-renowned experts have here answered a variety of trade related issues ranging from China’s free trade agreements in its neighbourhood, the Tripartite Relationship between China, Japan and Korea, the Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation as well human rights and environmental implications of free trade agreements. Contributors are: Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Jianfu Chen, Won-Mog Choi, Ming Du, Henry Gao, Liyu Han, Jiaxiang Hu, Robert Irish, Tomoko Ishikawa, Md. Rizwanul Islam, Kwangkug Kim, Qingjiang Kong, Yong-Shik Lee, Wei Liang, Kuei-Jung Ni, Delei Peng, Yasuhei Taniguchi, Kim Van der Borght, Matthias Vanhullebusch, and Richard N. Watanabe, Shengxing Yu

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jiaxiang Hu and Matthias Vanhullebusch -- A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats?: IPR Provisions in China's Free Trade Agreements / Qingjiang Kong -- Retrospect and Prospect of the Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) between Mainland China and Taiwan / Kuei-Jung Ni -- Bolstering Taiwan's Regional Operations Centres through Liberalization of Trade Across the Taiwan Strait / Richard N. Watanabe and Robert Irish -- China's FTA Practice in Europe: New Features and Impacts / Delei Peng -- Selected Issues in TPP Negotiation and Implications for China / Henry Gao -- Look before You Leap: The Case for China's Tripartite Strategy Towards the Trans-Pacific Strategic Partnership (TPP) / Ming Du -- Tripartite Free Trade Agreement among China, Korea, and Japan: A Step Towards Economic Integration in Northeast Asia? / Yong-Shik Lee and Kwangkug Kim -- Composing an Investment Chapter of the Korea-China-Japan FTA / Won-Mog Choi -- Industry Specific FTAs: Korean FTAs Example / Liyu Han -- On the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism in the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement: Lessons from Existing FTAs and Investment Treaties / Yasuhei Taniguchi and Tomoko Ishikawa -- Searching for Human Rights: Free Trade Agreements in Asia / Matthias Vanhullebusch -- Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone: The Model for Future China? / Jiaxiang Hu -- Promoting Intra-Regional Trade in South Asia through Trade Facilitation Measures under the Auspices of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation / Md. Rizwanul Islam -- A Study on the Cooperation in Trade Remedies among the BRICS Countries / Shengxing Yu -- The US, East Asian FTAs, and China / Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Wei Liang -- Playing a Long Game in Their Free Trade Regime between China and the EU: A Reflection on the Evolution of the MFN Clause / Kim Van der Borght -- Regional Trade Agreements in Context / Jianfu Chen -- Index / Jiaxiang Hu and Matthias Vanhullebusch.