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Edith Cowan University

2020

ACFTA

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Sustaining International Trade With China: Does Acfta Improve Asean Export Efficiency?, Antonio Alleyne, Zhaoyong Zhang, Yifei Mu Aug 2020

Sustaining International Trade With China: Does Acfta Improve Asean Export Efficiency?, Antonio Alleyne, Zhaoyong Zhang, Yifei Mu

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© 2020 by the authors. The business of international trade has never been identified as zero-sum. Yet, dependence on regional agreements to provide alternate means for countries to overlook shortcomings persists. China's recent rise up the trade value-chain has fostered an assumption that the regional agreement provides various advantages to exports from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) impact on ASEAN export efficiency into the Chinese market, in pre and post eras. Using a structured gravity approach to estimate potential export pattern at aggregate and …