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The failure of the Doha Round can hardly be ignored any longer. Still, an increasingly integrating world economy, documented both by intensifying global trade but also the growing number of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, is in desperate need of a truly global economic governance and trade scheme designed to meet the challenges of our globalizing times.

Against this background, the KAS Regional Social and Economic Governance Programme Asia (SOPAS) in cooperation with the Shanghai University of International Business and Economics (SUIBE) and supported by KAS Office Shanghai held a conference on “Economic Governance Strategies in the Age of FTAs” in Shanghai on the 5th of July. A number of high ranking representatives from the most important actors (countries and supranational institutions) in global trade evaluated the obstacles and potentials of both existing and emerging trade regimes.

09.00-09.10 hrs

Welcome Remarks

Xingguo Ye, Vice President, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

Joerg Wolff, Regional Representative for Economic Policy, Konrad Adenauer Foundation(KAS), Japan

09.10-10.00 hrs

Keynote Addresses

The Rules of International Trade: Experiences with Globalization

Harsha V. Singh, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization

Michael Fuchs, Member of German Bundestag, Vice-Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group

10.00-11.45 hrs

First Session:

Government Perspectives: Are FTAs offensive or defensive?

Moderator:

Peter Hefele, Director, KAS Office Shanghai

ASEAN and Strategic FTAs

Subash Bose Pillai, Director, Market Intergration Directorate, ASEAN Economic Community Department, ASEAN Secretariat

The Role of Trade Regimes in China’s Economic Globalization

Yuejiao Zhang, WTO Appellate Body Member

Can the TPP be an Example for a Multilateral Trade Agreement?

Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, USA

Transatlantic Free Trade and Potential Consequences for the WTO

Gabriel Felbermayr, Head of Department International Trade, Ifo Institute, Germany

13.15-14.45 hrs

Second Session:

Private Sector Strategies: What Kind of Trade Regimes are Needed for Dynamic Economic Development?

Moderator:

Xuetang Guo, Vice Director of Research, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

The Drawbacks of PTAs in Asia: Rules of Origin and the Limited Utilization Rates in Asian FTAs

Heribert Dieter, Senior Associate German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany

Northeast Asia

Yorizumi Watanabe, Professor, Keio University, Japan

India

on behalf of Rajiv Kumar, Senior Fellow of Center for Policy Research, Joerg Wolff presented the cases in India based on the airticles written by Indian senior researchers.

Europe

Ioana Kraft, General Manager, The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, Shanghai

15.45-17.15 hrs

Final Panel:

Trade Regimes in Globalization: What Economic Governance Strategies Have to Be Applied in the Age of FTAs?

Moderator:

Gabriel Felbermayr

Panelists:

• Michael Fuchs
• Subash Bose Pillai
• Clyde Prestowitz
• Harsha V. Singh

Closing Remarks

Joerg Wolff

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