Foreign trade of South-East Asian countries as the reflection of integration process in Asian-Pacific region

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2012, №18, 47-66

 
Annotation: South-East Asia takes an active part in economic integration and regionalization in the Asia-Pacific region. Trade and economic cooperation between the countries of ASEAN and their main trade partners in the APR – China, Japan and Republic of Korea is expanding and takes the form of bilateral and multilateral agreements on free trade areas in East Asia. Under these conditions ASEAN and ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) with their multilateral trade relations could act as the “consolidation core” of potential East Asian integration region.

Keywords: APR, ASEAN, FREE TRADE AREA, FOREIGN TRADE, REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION