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Politics of Trade in the USA and in the Obama Administration: Implications for Asian Regionalism

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Over the next four years, the Obama administration will face a series of strategic choices in forging policies to respond to a growing momentum for advances in Asian regional structures. Though faced with domestic political challenges; not least from within his own Democratic party – President Obama and his advisers will need to set a course for the reassertion of US leadership in constructing a trans‐Pacific vision, through new US‐based free trade agreements, signing on to existing agreements such as the P‐4 (Singapore, New Zealand, Brunei, the Philippines), or consolidating existing free trade agreements among Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations. In pursuing this vision, the US should take advantage of the fact that the next three APEC leaders meetings are in Singapore (2009), Japan (2010), and the USA (2011); a sequence ripe for synergistic teamwork.

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  • Claude BARFIELD, 2009. "Politics of Trade in the USA and in the Obama Administration: Implications for Asian Regionalism," Asian Economic Policy Review, Japan Center for Economic Research, vol. 4(2), pages 227-243, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiapr:v:4:y:2009:i:2:p:227-243
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-3131.2009.01127.x
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