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Thanadsillapakul, Lawan --- "The Harmonization of ASEAN: Competition Laws and Policy from an Economic Integration Perspective" [2012] ELECD 886; in Drexl, Josef; Bakhoum, Mor; Fox, M. Eleanor; Gal, S. Michal; Gerber, J. David (eds), "Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Competition Policy and Regional Integration in Developing Countries

Editor(s): Drexl, Josef; Bakhoum, Mor; Fox, M. Eleanor; Gal, S. Michal; Gerber, J. David

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781004302

Section: Chapter 1

Section Title: The Harmonization of ASEAN: Competition Laws and Policy from an Economic Integration Perspective

Author(s): Thanadsillapakul, Lawan

Number of pages: 28

Extract:

1. The harmonization of ASEAN:
competition laws and policy from an
economic integration perspective
Lawan Thanadsillapakul

1. INTRODUCTION
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)1 is an economic
group comprised of the countries of Southeast Asia.2 The Asia Pacific


1
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established in
Bangkok on 8 August 1967 by the five original member countries: Indonesia,
Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam joined on 8
January 1984, Vietnam on 28 July 1995, Laos and Myanmar on 23 July 1997 and
Cambodia on 30 April 1999. The ASEAN region has a population of about 500
million, a total area of 4.5 million square kilometres, a combined gross domestic
product of US$ 737 billion and a total trade volume of US$ 720 billion. Recently,
ASEAN launched several new economic co-operation schemes: the ASEAN Free
Trade Area (AFTA), the ASEAN Framework Agreement for Liberalisation on Trade
in Services (AFAS), the ASEAN Investment Area (AIA) and the ASEAN Industrial
Co-operation Scheme (AICO) for implementing open regionalism aimed at enhanc-
ing economic integration and creating an open regional economic group. See
Thanadsillapakul, L. (2000), `Open Regionalism and Deeper Integration: the
Implementation of AFTA, AIA, and AFAS', available at: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/
cepmlp/journal/html/vol6/vol6­16.html (the CEPMLP Internet Journal).
2
The new approach to ASEAN economic integration based on `open regional-
ism', which balances intra and extra-regional liberalization of trade and investment
and is aimed at ...