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1 Comments on the Freund Ornelas Paper Fukunari Kimura Keio University ERIA
2 1. Overall appreciadon Extremely useful and instrucdve literature survey covering both theory and empirics Major conclusions: empirics malers Trade diversion Theory: can be serious or negligible Empirics: trade creadon dominates; less serious Causality from regionalism to muldlateralism Theory: can be good or bad Empirics: liberalizadon in regionalism seems to accelerate liberalizadon in muldlateral context Does regionalism undermine muldlateralism? Theory: can be in both ways Empirics:??
3 2. Contents of trade creadon Gravity equadon exercises DetecDng crude effects, including overall efforts of economic integradon, together with tariff reducdon TheoreDcal/econometric underpinnings beyond dummies are required. Is empirical decomposidon implementable? The Dming of actual trade liberalizadon and FTA udlizadon may maler though being not carefully conducted
4 E.g., trade creadon in East Asia in is due to Direct effects of trade liberalizadon by AFTA and China s WTO accession; effects of other FTAs came later AFTA => reshuffling of producdon sites for plantlevel economies of scale => more trade Trade liberalizadon and WTO+ => more viable for producdon networks => more trade Growth in producdve sectors => employment creadon => growing middle income populadon => more demand for tradables => more trade
5 Source: Kimura (2009b).
6 Source: ERIA (2010).
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8 Source: Kimura and Obashi (2010).
9 PopulaDon by income groups: China (US dollars; 2005 PPP adjusted; annual total income of a family with four members) > $12,000 $6,000 12,000 Total populadon: 1,204,850, million (5%) Total populadon: 1,304,500, million (8%) > $12,000 $3,000 6,000 $1,800 3, million (21%) million (20%) million (22%) Middle income $6,000 12, million (35%) $3,000 6,000 < $1, million (54%) million (20%) $1,800 3,000 Below poverty line million (16%) < $1, Source: ERIA (2010) (data from Povcalnet of the World Bank).
10 PopulaDon by income groups: ASEAN (excl. Singapore, Brunei, and Myanmar) (US dollars; 2005 PPP adjusted; annual total income of a family with four members) > $12,000 $6,000 12,000 $3,000 6,000 Total pupuladon: 429,140, million (5%) million (10%) million (23%) Total populadon: 501,110, million (7%) million (16%) Middle income > $12,000 $6,000 12,000 $1,800 3, million (26%) million (34%) $3,000 6, million (25%) $1,800 3,000 < $1, million (36%) Below Poverty line million (19%) < $1, Source: ERIA (2010) (data from Povcalnet of the World Bank).
11 PopulaDon by income groups: India (US dollars; 2005 PPP adjusted; annual total income of a family with four members) > $12,000 $6,000 12,000 $3,000 6,000 $1,800 3,000 Total populadon: 888,320, nillion (2%) million (16%) million (32%) Total populadon: 1,079,700, million (4%) Middle income million (20%) million (33%) > $12,000 $6,000 12,000 $3,000 6,000 $1,800 3,000 < $1, million (49%) Below Poverty line million (42%) < $1, Source: ERIA (2010) (data from Povcalnet of the World Bank).
12 The nature of the economy (i.e., the existence of producdon networks) and WTO+ (funcdonal De ups by other policy channels) can make trade creadon much larger than the standard theoredcal intuidon. Possible strong points of regionalism.
13 3. Trade diversion in the real world The threat perceived by the 3 rd country s industry is real, but both the structure (not a simple countries A=B and C ) and remedies are diversified. Structure, e.g., for Japan, NAFTA and EU Mexico FTA (against US and EU firms in Mexico); ASEAN China FTA (rather polidcal, leadership issues in the region); US Korea and EU Korea FTAs (against Korean firms; classic!) Responses #1: FDI in a country with the concerned outside FTA Strong weapon for FTA concluding countries to alract FDI» E.g., EU for electric appliances; Thailand for automodves #2: expanding FTA networking (a sort of domino effects) Flexibility of FTAs vis à vis CUs in sequencing works.» E.g., Japan s pardcipadon in TPP??
14 Proposed plurilateral FTAs in East Asia and Asia Pacific
15 TPP pardcipants Source: Kimura (2009b).
16 Does middle power in the world really lead FTAs with trade diversion as the polidcal economy theory suggests (cf. EU)? FTAs make a small advantage in head to head compeddon among the strongest. Lobbying by middle power does not seem to be strong in East Asia; FTA formadon of partners cannot be stopped; rather simple two camp seungs in the juggernaut story fits. Trade diversion or geographical boundary of producdon networks? Geographical boundaries vary across industries: electronics vs. automodves Unilateral liberalizadon for electronics vs. FTAs for automodves ProducDon networks in automodve sector by regions, i.e., China and ASEAN separately
17 Note: The circle of 100km is added by the author. Original source: Board of Investment, Thailand. Source: Kimura, Fukunari (2009a).
18 4. Incomplete liberalizadon is penalized An anecdote: dirty FTAs between Japan and ASEAN retaining a large part of agricultural trade protecdon Background Side payments allowed Japan to retain protecdon. Delay in DDA is a necessary condidon. Each FTA pushes some new liberalizadon (juggernaut). New development Japan s FTA strategy loses the degree of freedom for going beyond East Asia. May generate a break through in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), with polidcal consideradon on China (domino). Both domino and juggernaut effects seem to work strongly.
19 5. Rules of origin The paper rightly points out protecdonism in ROO. The suggested scenario for the simplest text such as a single digit VA method may not be realized. As a second best choice, the co equal system should be implemented. Estevadeordal, Harris, and Suominen (2007), Medalla and Balboa (2009) The spagheu/noodle bowl phenomena are not too serious; further facilitadon is of course needed though. Microdata analyses: Kawai and Wignaraja (2009), Hayakawa, Hiratsuka, Shiino, and Sukegawa (2009)
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21 6. WTO+ The funcdonal approach, rather than rulemaking, in East Asia may provide some insights. The target is clearly the improvement of investment climate and the promodon of industrializadon. Both within and outside of FTAs, funcdonal elements are included. E.g., trade facilitadon, FDI liberalizadon/facilitadon, economic insdtudons (i.e., IPR), hard and sox infrastructure development, fostering local firms/entrepreneurs, economic/technical cooperadon,
22 7. Does the world come back to WTO? The enforcement of exisdng rules including dispute sellements is highly appreciated. WTO as a negodadon forum is at risk. Even if difficult, the coverage of policy modes should be expanded in order to catch up with globalizadon.
23 References Estevadeordal, Antoni; Harris, Jeremy; and Suominen, Kati. (2007) Multilateralizing Preferential Rules of Origin around the World. Presented at WTO/HEI/NCCR Trade/CEPR Conference Multilateralizing Regionalism on September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. Available at Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Hiratsuka, Daisuke; Shiino, Kohei; and Sukegawa, Seiya. (2009) Who Uses Free Trade Agreements? ERIA Discussion Paper Series No ( Kawai, Masahiro and Wignaraja, Ganeshan. (2009) The Asian Noodle Bowl : Is It Serious for Business? ADBI Working Paper Series No. 136 (April). Kimura, Fukunari and Obashi, Ayako. (2010) International Production Networks in Machinery Industries: Structure and Its Evolution. ERIA Discussion Paper Series No ( Medalla, Erlinda M. and Balboa, Jenny. (2009) ASEAN Roles of Origin: Lessons and Recommendations for Best Practice. ERIA Discussion Paper ERIA-DP In Sukegawa, Seiya. (2009) Hajimarouto shiteiru higashiajia sangyou saihen no dai 2 maku (The second act of East Asian industrial restructuring is about to start). Forthcoming in Jiji-Tsushin-sha Ajia Tenbou. In Japanese.
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