Free trade areas in East Asia: Discriminatory or non-discriminatory?

World Economy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-48

  Lee, Jong Wha ^a,b   Park, Innwon ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE TRADE; FREE TRADE AREA; TRADE POLICY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 13444309295     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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