Negotiating services with ASEAN: The EU between the WTO and Japan

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

International Studies

Document Type

Article

Source Title

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volume

16

Issue

3

First Page

379

Last Page

400

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Abstract

In future Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations between the EU and individual Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members, trade in services will feature prominently. Such negotiations will be constrained by the network of ASEAN's bilateral Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with Japan, because the EPAs' approach differs from the EU approach at the World Trade Organization's Doha Round in two ways. First, Japan adopted the approach to services trade liberalization favoured by ASEAN. Second, Japan accepted ASEAN's regulations in the services sectors that they liberalized and allowed the movement of certain categories of natural persons to Japan. In return, ASEAN countries opened a large number of services sectors to Japanese investment. © 2011 Kluwer Law International BV.

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Disciplines

International Relations

Keywords

Foreign trade regulation--Southeast Asia; Service industries--Southeast Asia; General Agreement on Trade in Services (1994)

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