A CGE Study of Economic Impact of Accession of Hong Kong to ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement

Ken Itakura, Yoshifumi Fukunaga and Ikumo Isono

No DP-2013-06, Working Papers from Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Abstract: We conduct a set of global computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulations to evaluate economic effects of Hong Kong’s accession to the ASEAN-China FTA (HK-ACFTA) by implementing tariff elimination, logistics, enhancement, and reduction in service trade barriers. All the participating countries can benefit from the accession, resulted in higher real GDP and economic welfare.The welfare gain becomes the largest when HK-ACFTA improves the existing agreement and trade facilitation programs between ASEAN and China. The simulation results indicate that such trade facilitation could generate considerable export volume increases for both ASEAN and China

Keywords: FTA; computable general equilibrium (CGE) model; tariff elimination; services liberalization; trade facilitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages.
Date: 2013-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cmp, nep-int and nep-sea
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