This paper raises the need for APEC member economies to establish coordinated action aimed at ensuring that the recent proliferation of preferential trade agreements in the Asia-Pacific contributes to the achievement of the objective of APEC as a whole being a region of trade and free investment in 2010, in the case of developed economies, and in 2020 for those in development. This approach is supported by comparing the non-discriminatory liberalization promoted by APEC with the preferential liberalization agreed in the aforementioned agreements, examining the problems that the latter entails for the extension of liberalization to broader scales, and analyzing the results of the main empirical investigations that show unequivocally that the economic benefits of the former are greater.
Keywords:
Asia-Pacific, Trade Agreements, APEC, Non-discriminatory Liberalization, International Economic Relations
Author Biographies
Robert Scollay
Director del New Zeland APEC Study Centre; Senior Lecture, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Auckland; miembro del Trade Policy Forum, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council.
Fernando González-Vigil
Bachiller en economía, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima; licenciado en sociología, Universidad de París V; director del Centro de Estudios APEC (CEAUP), Universidad del Pacífico, Lima.
Scollay, R., & González-Vigil, F. (2004). Los acuerdos comerciales en el Asia-Pacífico de cara a los objetivos de APEC. Estudios Internacionales, 36(144), p. 7–29. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2004.14601
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