Titre
Rules of origin for preferential trading arrangements: Implications for the ASEAN Free Trade Area of EU and US experience
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Cadot, O.
Auteure/Auteur
de Melo, J.
Auteure/Auteur
Portugal-Pérez, A.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1225-651X
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2007
Volume
22
Numéro
2
Première page
288
Dernière page/numéro d’article
319
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
With free trade areas (FTAs) under negotiation between Japan and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) members and between the Republic of Korea and AFTA members, preferential market access will become more important in Asian regionalism. Protectionist pressures will likely increase through rules of origin, the natural outlet for these pressures. Based on the experience of the European Union and the United States with rules of origin, this paper argues that, should these FTAs follow in the footsteps of the EU and the US and adopt similar RoO, trading partners in the region would incur unnecessary costs. Using EU trade with GSP and ACP partners, the paper estimates how the utilization of preferences would likely change if AFTA were to veer away from its current uniform RoO requiring a 40% local content rate. Depending on the sample used, a 10 percentage point reduction in the local value content requirement is estimated to increase the utilization rate of preferences by between 2.5 and 8.2 percentage points.
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_43EFC94567D5
Date de création
2009-03-10T14:05:17.565Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T16:04:06Z