The Assessment of Trade Barriers within Prospective Integration Unions in the Asia-Pacific Region

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	Regionalistica 2019 Volume 6 number 3 pages 66-79

Title of the article	The Assessment of Trade Barriers within Prospective Integration Unions in the Asia-Pacific Region
Pages	66-79
Author	Tomilov Mikhail Vladimirovich junior researcher Economic Research Institute FEB RAS 153, Tikhookeanskaya Street, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680042 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract	The article represents the assessment of interregional trade barriers within integration unions in the Asia-Pacific region made by APR trade gravitation model construction and the estimation of border effect based on it. As a result it is concluded that considered blocs (The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) have a small potential in terms of possible effects for their participants after reducing trade barriers within these groups. In order to achieve some tangible effects the agreements on the establishment of considered unions should be qualitatively different from existing bilateral and multilateral trade formats.
Code	339.92+339.54
DOI	10.14530/reg.2019.3.66
Keywords	trade integration ♦ trade barriers ♦ gravitation model ♦ border effect ♦ APR ♦ CPTPP ♦ RCEP
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For citation	Tomilov M.V. The Assessment of Trade Barriers within Prospective Integration Unions in the Asia-Pacific Region. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2019. Vol. 6. No. 3. Pp. 66–79. DOI: 10.14530/reg.2019.3.66. (In Russian).
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