文章基本信息

标题：“Rules of Origin and Automotive Sector in Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements”
本地全文：下载
作者：Hanny Zurina Hamzah
期刊名称：International Journal of Economics and Finance Studies
电子版ISSN：1309-8055
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Social Sciences Research Society
摘要：This paper examines complicated Rules of Origin (RoO) in Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with East Asian countries. To limit the scope of this research, the paper concentrates on automotive industries in ASEAN4 only. The reason is that, this industry is the world’s largest manufacturing activity and had long been protected in Malaysia, liberalized but with limited market access in Thailand, and growing in Indonesia with majority players are the Japanese automakers. The main question that this paper tries to answer is whether these countries should create a different and standardize the existing set of RoO in order to increase the utilization of FTAs with other partner countries. Complex rules in RoO have several implications on Japanese automotive production network when EPAs coming into force. Next, this paper discusses how to understand RoO among automotive related firms and at the same time promote automotive industry in ASEAN to develop to the world class levels.
关键词：rules of origin; automotive; FTA; Japan; ASEAN