Do regional trade agreements increase trade? Empirical evidence from the Asia–Pacific region

Gharleghi, Behrooz; Shafighi, Najla

doi:10.1111/ecaf.12435

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“…Therefore, food supply may be imported from the other ASEAN countries by Indian and Japanese importers, which results in the decrease of Vietnam's agricultural exports. In addition, the negative impact of RTAs membership in this paper is similar to relevant research of Gharleghi and Shafighi (2020), Jagdambe and Kannan (2020), Lohani (2020), and Narayan and Nguyen (2016). Moreover, Kahouli (2016) has argued that the trade creation effect of RTAs, which is proxied by the dummy variables of RTAs membership, is unstable and unpredictable.…”

Section: Robustness To the Zero Trade Issuesupporting

confidence: 84%

Globalisation, Logistics and Food Supply: Evidence from Vietnam

2021

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Most countries satisfy domestic food consumption by importing from foreign supplies, thus highlighting the role of agricultural exports in maintaining and diversifying the global food supply. In the age of globalisation, whether the flourishing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) has been facilitating greater market access of agricultural and food products is questioned by national governments. Meanwhile, logistics performance has been the bottleneck of emerging economies, which exerts negative impacts on agricultural export competitiveness in foreign markets. Overall, the interlink between globalisation, logistics and food supply has not been addressed adequately. Therefore, this paper employs the trade gravity model to examine the relationship between agricultural exports, RTAs membership, and logistics performance in the case of Vietnam and her 97 major trading partners. Static and dynamic panel data estimation are employed with the methods applied to solving the zero trade and endogeneity concerns. Findings confirm the interlink between globalisation, logistics and food supply. RTAs-based globalisation and logistics policies are intertwined to secure and diversify import-driven food supply. The unified framework for long-term and sustainable development which aims at strengthening the interlink between globalisation, logistics, agriculture and global food supply should be considered in policy formulation.

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Section: Robustness To the Zero Trade Issuesupporting

confidence: 84%

Globalisation, Logistics and Food Supply: Evidence from Vietnam

2021

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“…In the model which assist by ppml estimation, the dependent variable which is export value without logarithmic form. This research are modified the gravity model which referring to the research model of Carrère et al (2020), Endoh et al (2013), Gharleghi & Shafighi (2020), Sun & Reed (2010), and Yang & Martinez-Zarzoso (2014) whom contain the three dummy variables as proxies of the impact of trade creation, export trade diversion and import trade diversion. The gravity equation which applies in this study could be seen as follows:…”

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Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of AIFTA Implementation

Rachman

Hartono

2023

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The number of Free Trade Agreements (FTA) based on each region or so called as Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) has been increased rapidly after the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues to increase from year to year. This cause of international trade are becoming autonomous. The Indonesia's participation at the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement (AIFTA)greatly affect to the economy due to strategic trade partnership which tied between Indonesia and India. This research has intention to explore more relates to impact of trade creation and trade diversion from the implementation of AIFTA on Indonesia's exports and imports through aggregate and disaggregated data which consisting of 6 commodities. The sample used in this research are consisted of 25 countries during year of 2006-2017. Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) were applied as estimation method. With estimation results shows that the implementation of AIFTA has significantly negative affect towards the export trade diversion. This indicates that there is a decline occurs in Indonesia's exports to non-AIFTA member countries. In disaggregated data, net trade creation is found in food-drinks,tobacco and livestock, energy products also raw materials. Furthermore, this net trade diversion were also found in other manufactured goods and machinery and transport equipment.

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“…The impact assessment of several FTAs of ASEAN is widely done; however, only a few studies evaluate their impacts on trade flows (or intra-bloc trade flows) simultaneously. The major contribution of our study is that, unlike previous studies (Gharleghi & Shafighi, 2020;Jagdambe & Kannan, 2020;Lee & Park, 2021;Yang & Martinez-Zarzoso, 2014), it assesses the impact of ASEAN FTAs under a theory-consistent structural gravity framework of international trade, which includes intra-national trade flows.…”

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confidence: 99%

Re-assessment of Bilateral and Unilateral Trade Effects of ASEAN FTAs: A Theory-Consistent Structural Gravity Estimation

Kumari

2024

Asian Economics Letters

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This paper reinvestigates the bilateral and unilateral effects of five ASEAN free trade agreements (FTAs) by applying a theory-consistent structural gravity model that remains untouched in the existing literature. The findings suggest that ASEAN-China and ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTAs led to a decrease in the international trade among member countries and between member and non-member countries in relation to their internal trade. The ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN-Japan, and ASEAN-India FTAs did not have any significant impact on the member countries and non-member countries’ trade.

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Do regional trade agreements increase trade? Empirical evidence from the Asia–Pacific region

Cited by 13 publications

References 32 publications

Globalisation, Logistics and Food Supply: Evidence from Vietnam

Globalisation, Logistics and Food Supply: Evidence from Vietnam

Trade Creation and Diversion Effects of AIFTA Implementation

Re-assessment of Bilateral and Unilateral Trade Effects of ASEAN FTAs: A Theory-Consistent Structural Gravity Estimation

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