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Trading Blocs

Under the Treaty of Rome, which came into force at the beginning of 1959, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany agreed to the gradual removal of all trade barriers among themselves on almost all goods produced within the region.

They agreed to the erection of a common tariff barrier on goods from outside and the removal of tariffs and import quotes among member countries. The organization that was established was called the EEU European Economic Community or EEC or European Union or EU More info at: http://europa.eu.int/ and http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/adressen/eu.html

Since the Treaty of Rome came into force, the member countries of the EEC have steadily pushed ahead with the unification of their economies and countries such as U.K., Ireland, Denmark, Spain as well as many other European countries became new member. Trade barriers have been reduced more rapidly than was originally intended and monetary co-operation with a common "Euro" currency by January 1999

After World War II.
The Comecon  and elsewhere in the world  - countries have joined together in regional trading blocs. The post-second World War II experience of Third World countries supports the conventional wisdom that the development of a new economic system is necessarily a long, drawn out process spanning several decades.

Efforts underway in Eastern and Central Europe to radically abridge and accelerate the process of establishing new economic and political systems within a single decade with new perspective of development as a process and new strategies for accelerating social transformation.

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More info at: 
http://www.motherservice.org/Essays/TheoryofDevelopment.html
and
http://www.jetro.go.jp/it/e/pub/whitepaper/trade1996/tra2-4.html 
 

ASEAN Association of South East Asia Nations of more than a total population of 500 million, established in 1965 (held annually, Ministerial Meeting) consist of member countries from:- Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines and Myanmar. More information at http://www.aseansec.org/ and http://www.asean.or.id/  More information on ASEAN members http://www.sino.net/asean/asntravl.html 

AFTA - ASEAN Free Trade Agreement or ASEAN Free Trade Area, by year 2003 called EVSL (Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization). More information at http://www.dfat.gov.au/eaau/asean_free_trade_area.html

EAEC (East Asia Economic Caucus) or known as "Asean Plus Three" proposed by ASEAN to come into force by 2003 with members consisting of the 10 ASEAN members plus Japan, South Korea, and China. More information at: http://www.dfat.gov.au/arf/index.html

ARF Asean Regional Forum, held annually at Foreign Minister level, annually in July, in conjunction with the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC). ARF a regional security body of East Asia - with members consisting of Australia, Canada, China, The European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Russia and U.S.A.

ARF ASEAN Regional Forum, draws together 23 countries which have an impact on, or are involved in, the security of the Asia Pacific region. ARF, which held its first meeting in 1994, provides a setting in which members can discuss pressing regional security and political concerns and develop cooperative measures to enhance peace and security in the region. 

ASEAN TROIKA of past, present and next chairmen can be constituted on an ad hoc basis "if and when the situation warrants" to address urgent political and security issues of common concern. The TROIKA concept adhere to ASEAN core principles. The TROIKA concept is new and it remains to be seen how it works (The Star - 01/08/2000)

More information regarding East Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian American from a variety of political and cultural perspectives as well as politics, society, history and cultural links are available at:
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html

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Non-Tariff Barriers The various types of non-tariff barriers
(or NTB) that impede the flow of international trade include consist of:  import quotas, exchange controls, customs delays, government purchasing policies, subsidies, customs calculation procedures, boycotts, technical barriers, bribes and voluntary restraints.

Additional steps are continuously being taken through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT or now referred to as WTO World Trade Organization since 1995, to reduce trade barriers to imports from non-members.

 
 
 

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