Brick by Brick: The Building of an ASEAN Economic Community

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v By: ROS Size: 6" x 9" J/No: 07-13802 Fonts: AGara, Aurora & Helv. Contents Foreword by Ong Keng Yong vii Foreword by Bruce Davis ix Acknowledgements by Academic Editor xi Acknowledgements by Technical Director REPSF xiii The Contributors xv The Regional Economic Policy Support Facility xvii Brian Brogan 1 Introduction: Brick by Brick — The Building of an ASEAN Economic Community 1 Denis Hew 2 What is a Single Market? An Application to the Case of ASEAN 13 Peter J. Lloyd 3 The Challenge of Economic Integration for Transitional Economies of Southeast Asia 36 Jose L. Tongzon and Habibullah Khan 4 A Review of Regional Tariffs and Trade in the ASEAN Priority Goods Sectors 59 Rina Oktaviani, Amzul Rifin, and Henny Reinhardt 00 BrickByBrick Prelims 10/30/07, 2:29 PM 5 vi By: ROS Size: 6" x 9" J/No: 07-13802 Fonts: AGara, Aurora & Helv. vi Contents 5 Non-tariff Barriers to Trade in the ASEAN Priority Goods Sectors 86 Loreli C. de Dios 6 An Assessment of ASEAN’s Priority Sectors for Fast-track Integration 116 Christopher Findlay, David Parsons, and Herb Plunkett 7 ASEAN Tax Regimes: Impediment or Pathway to Greater Integration 132 Ian Farrow and Sunita Jogarajan 8 An Overview of the Foreign Direct Investment Jurisprudence 144 M. Sornarajah and Rajenthran Arumugam 9 ASEAN’s FTA Negotiations with Dialogue Partners: Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Business Opportunities 175 Rahul Sen and Sanchita Basu Das 10 Conclusion: Towards an ASEAN Economic Community by 2015 209 Denis Hew Index 227 Contents of Accompanying CD-ROM: AADCP-REPSF Phase I Research Program 243 00 BrickByBrick Prelims 10/30/07, 2:29 PM 6 ...