APEC Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation
Staff research paper
APEC Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalisation by Phillipa Dee, Alexis Hardin and Michael Schuele was released on 31 July 1998. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 4th APEC Roundtable: Regional Cooperation and Asian Recovery, held in Boston in May 1998. It examines the likely long-term effect of selected early voluntary sectoral liberalisation.
The paper is the second paper examining the effects of APEC trade liberalisation initiatives. The first, The Impact of APEC's Free Trade Commitment, was released by the Industry Commission in February 1996. Also see:
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CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Copyright, Preface, Contents, Summary
1 Introduction
Selected sectors
First tier sectors
Second tier sectors
2 A framework for examining sectoral liberalisation proposals
The modelling framework
Proposals to be examined
Sectors covered in the analysis
The extent of liberalisation
3 The impact of early voluntary sectoral liberalisation
Impact of five selected EVSL proposals
4 Avoiding second-best welfare losses
5 Directions of APEC early voluntary sectoral liberalisation
APPENDICES
A Key features of the IC95 model
B EVSL proposals
References
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