New frontiers in Asia-Latin America integration : trade facilitation, production networks, and FTAs / edited by Antoni Estevadeordal, Masahiro Kawai, and Ganeshan Wignaraja
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; PART I Trade Facilitation; 2 Origin and Beyond: Trade Facilitation Disaster or Trade Facilitation Opportunity?; 3 Accelerating Regional Integration: Issues at the Border; 4 Trade Logistics and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean; 5 Supply Chain Dynamics in Asia; 6 The Internationalization of SMEs in Regional and Global Value Chains; 7 Regional Integration Behind the Border: Applying a Value Chain Approach; 8 PRC's Outward FDI to Latin America: Trends and Motivations*
9 Asia-Latin America FTAs: An Instrument for Interregional Liberalization and Integration?10 Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and Caribbean and Asia and Pacific:* Perspective from East Asia; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
Summary
Economic ties between Asia and Latin America are growing as a part of a global shift toward more South-South cooperation. Yet trade costs remain high, which may impede future interregional trade and integration. Furthermore, an emerging trans-Pacific trade architecture based on free trade agreements (FTAs) carries risks of a noodle bowl effect. This book examines new frontiers in Asia-Latin America integration through interregional comparative studies in three key areas: trade facilitation, logistics, and infrastructure; production networks, supply chains, and small and medium-sized enterprise
