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Traditional Services Trade in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Trade, RCEP, Travel

Traditional Services Trade in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Traditional services trade (TST), including tourism and transport services, is the basic and key component of services trade in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The implementation of RCEP will provide a platform for further liberalisation in TST, thus effectively promoting the growth of the whole service trade and the development of the travel and transportation industry. In this paper we will first show the trade pattern of TST in RCEP. Then, the commitments by each RCEP member will be thoroughly analysed, and the Hoekman index will be constructed to measure the liberalisation levels for the RCEP members. In the last section, we outline some impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on TST and propose policy implications for RCEP in the post pandemic era.

Traditional Services Trade in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Date

14 September 2022

Category

Services, Trade

Editor

Zhang Yan, Shandre Mugan Thangavelu

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