PO370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: World Trade Organization, Free-Trade Area, Bilateralism
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At least 8-10 academic sources (journals articles, books, chapters in edited books) Web if science - good place to start. You can use 2 of the syllabus of the 10. Asean plus three (apt) 1997 - japan, china, sk. All asian countries a new move in regionalism. Anean plus three plus three: australia, nz and india. Final country trying to get in now canada. 2006 - partnership between brunei, chile, nz and singapore. 2008 the bush administration decided t take part in expansion and deeping of this agreement. Roughly same time, came aus, peru, vietnam, malaysia. Japan joined and changed the game in 2013 . It was a priority and negotiations happened under obama. Us wanted it to be ambitus and far reaching deal. Wanted these countries to not longer apply any tariffs in trade generally a free trade agreement. Wanted their economic and legal systems wanted to regulate these things.
