TRADE LIBERALISATION IN ASIA: WHY INTRA-ASIAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS ARE NOT UTILISED BY THE BUSINESS COMMUNITYMercurio, BryanAsian Journal of WTO & International Health Law & Policy
the Africans are managing to come together for shared development. The African Continental Free Trade Area, the world's largest free trade area, now brings together the 55 countries of the African Union to create a single market for
Most analysts attribute the reason for the depreciation of currencies in many Asian countries to the strong US dollar. The Federal Reserve of the United States has kept its benchmark interest rate high, coupled with the ongoing geopolitical tensions in recent years, leading to global capital flows...
trade advantages with these countries and regions: Australia, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vietnam, European Union Countries, Eurasian Economic Union countries. ...
and the United States. China’s share of US imports declined by about 6.0 percentage points between 2018 and 2022, while those of Emerging Asia, Frontier Asia, and India increased by 4.4 percentage points. At the same time, Asian countries’ trade with China grew rapidly. Trade between China...
Why invest globally when so much of the global government bond market is trading with lower yields? Because, depending on the differences between countries’ short-term interest rates, currency hedging can raise a bond’s yield. Hedging foreign currency back into US dollars accomplishes two...
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and does not answer the questions of the urgency of ASEAN states. Driven by a fear of conceding regional influence on China, the IPEF is an unimpressive attempt by Washington to make up for its unwillingness to negotiate the type of open market access trade deals ASEAN countries are seeking....
several countries temporarily banned short selling to protect their financial markets. In the U.S., the SEC temporarily banned short selling in financial stocks in September 2008. Similar measures were taken in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and several European countries to safeguard financi...
Australia will start exporting more and importing less, due to its lower-valued currency. This will ultimately reverse the initial scenario. This is the self-correcting mechanism that occurs in the international trade and forex markets regularly, with little or no intervention from any authority...