Lessons learned from South-South trade and role of regional trade agreements in Asia

Programme

Keynote address:   Tomoharu Washio, Executive Vice President, JETRO

Opening statement:   Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General, UNCTAD

Session 1: Dynamic trends in South-South trade and rapidly evolving regional trade agreements in Asia

Panellists:

• Miho Shirotori, DITC, UNCTAD
  Dynamic trends in South-South trade
• Ichiro Araki, Professor, Yokohama University
  Rapidly evolving regional trade agreements in Asia
• Minako Morita, DITC, UNCTAD
  Comparative analysis of scope and coverage of South-South regional trade agreements in Asia
• Amb. Datuk M. Supperamaniam, Adviser, WTO/FTA negotiations, Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers

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Session 2: South-South regional trade agreements in Asia and their impacts on trade

Panellists:

• Marco Fugazza, DITC, UNCTAD
  Impacts of regional trade agreements on trade
• Hiratsuka, Daisuke, Director-General, Development Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO
  ASEAN-related regional trade agreements and their economic impacts
• Sudip Basu, DITC, UNCTAD
  India and South-South regional trade agreements
• Pierre Sauvé, Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies, World Trade Institute
  South-South preferential trade agreements -Is there evidence of capacity-building and regulatory strengthening externalities?

- Discussion -

Session 3: Policy lessons and implications for developing-country Governments in other regions

Panellists:

• Prof. Pierre Sauvé, Deputy Managing Director and Director of Studies, World Trade Institute
• Amb. Datuk M. Supperamaniam, Adviser, WTO/FTA negotiations, Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers
• Toshiki Takahashi, Director, International Economic Research Division, Overseas Research Department, JETRO
  Regional trade agreements and business strategy: What can developing countries learn from it?
• Victor Ognivtsev, DITC, UNCTAD

- Discussion -