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Striking a balance between trade facilitation and preventing trade deflection is the single most difficult challenge with regard to the issue of rules..

With globalization and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) leading to growing international production sharing, amidst the incr..

This paper examines the economy-wide impacts of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) on the Philippine economy. In particular, it uses an app..

Free trade agreements (FTAs) are seen to boost a nation's competitiveness in the global trade arena. Asia, albeit a "late bloomer" in initiating FTAs ..

In moving toward the East Asian vision of a community, a rational, enabling regime of rules of origin (ROOs) that would encourage deeper economic inte..

APEC’s vision of integrating the APEC has remained, for the most part, intangible. Cultural differences, socioeconomic disparity, and lack o..

Why the need to ratify the JPEPA? Based on the numerous studies carried out under the PIDS JPEPA Research Project, JPEPA will be advantageous to the c..

This paper aims to provide some information on the implications for the Philippine agriculture sector of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement. In part..

In a democratic country, economic policies succeed or fail depending on the political support they receive. Open trade policies that were initiated an..

Intellectual property rights-–copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, and related rights-–have become increasingly important with the adve..

The participation of the Philippines in the global production network of multinational electronic companies has undoubtedly shaped the pattern and str..

The paper discusses the state of the Philippine garments industry, with specific focus on its competitiveness and logistics infrastructure, and how th..

The United States of America is the top trading partner of the Philippines and also the top destination of highly skilled and professional Filipino wo..

As a result of changing conditions in the world market and increasing global competition, trade and integration arrangements have become a part of eco..

The paper analyzes how various preferential trading arrangements deal with agriculture liberalization and examines a few case studies highlighting th..