Economic integration and the diversification of regional exports: evidence from the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

We investigate the impact of Canada–U.S. trade integrationon the degree of export diversification of the Canadian regions.Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weightedtariffs that were boosted by implementation of the Canadian–U.S.Free Trade Agreement. We found strong evidence to support integration'slong-run impact on the patterns of absolute exports diversification.Significantly, this new finding remains robust to the exclusionof the primary sectors and to the potential presence of unitroot in the data. Our results lead us to support a positivelong-run relationship between trade integration and export diversification.     

日本对外贸易政策的新动向--关于区域自由贸易协定的几点议论

日本与新加坡签署自由贸易协定,表明其对外贸易政策发生了一些变化,它有别于日本一贯主张的“多边主义”,这一变化是建立在对多边贸易政策和区域协定重新认识基础之上的,表现为日本积极参与区域协定的具体行动上,其意图是适应外部环境变化以解决自身的经济问题。