ASEAN-China Free Trade Zone

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Fri Oct 25 06:51:19 PDT 2002


Far Eastern Economic Review

FREE TRADE

Nothing's Free

Misgivings surface over an Asean-China free-trade zone. Leaders need to decide on a launch date

By Barry Wain/SINGAPORE Issue cover-dated October 31, 2002

TWO YEARS AGO, Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji stunned the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with an offer to establish a free-trade area, or FTA, over 10 years. The proposal followed South Korea suggesting an East Asia FTA linking Southeast and Northeast Asia. In contrast, Beijing's initiative would, at least temporarily, leave Asean's two older partners--South Korea and Japan--out in the cold.

http://www.feer.com/articles/2002/0210_31/p035china.html



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