Strengthening capacity building for RTA/FTA negotiations in APEC
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Quimba, Francis Mark A. | October 2017
Abstract
Capacity building is crucial and necessary in cooperation and integration efforts between two or among several country partners. In the negotiation process, the countries need to build a strong confidence shared among partners that what is being established will be generally fair, equitable, and beneficial to all concerned.
Although forging trade agreements is not a simple zero-sum game, mutual benefits must still be evident to all parties and, hopefully, deemed to be enhanced to the satisfaction of all those involved. This requires capacity building at many levels – from the level of negotiators, to institutions and government bureaucracy, to the private sector that will eventually reap the benefits and/or deal with adjustments. However, this endeavor is easier said than done. At the very least, country partners should ensure the existence of a degree of transparency, a shared set of objectives, and a common effort to truly learn from and understand the perspectives of each other.
Citation
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Quimba, Francis Mark A.. 2017. Strengthening capacity building for RTA/FTA negotiations in APEC. © Philippine Institute for Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7964.ISSN
2508-0865
Keywords
Government Policy
Regional Organization
Regional Plans
Economic integration
Regional Development Bank
Preferential tariffs
International negotiation
Protectionist measures
Access to markets
Economic agreements
International trade law
Regional integration
Trade relations
Exports
Economic integration
Distribution
Economic integration
Development Bank
Trade policy
Regionalism
Regional Economy
Regional Trading Arrangements
Regional Trade Integration
Regional Economic Integration
Regional Cooperation
Interregional Cooperation
Trade Disputes
Trade Barriers
Free Trade
Trade
Trade Agreements
Intraregional Trade
Regional economics
Regional planning
Regional disparities
Interregionalism
Regional economic disparities
Regional economic blocs
Industrial arbitration
Euro
Inflation
Business
Finance
Free trade
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