Approaches to Standards Cooperation with ASEAN and the Relevance to Aid for Trade

Eom Doyoung; Heejin Lee; Jooyoung Kwak

doi:10.18107/japs.2021.28.3.001

One of the main goals of ASEAN to enhance connectivity and economic integration is to harmonize standards and regulations, and implement MRAs. Developed countries have been providing support to address challenges faced by ASEAN associated with the harmonization of standards and regulations. While there is a clear relationship between standards and development assistance to trade, the explicit relevance of standards to Aid for Trade (AfT) is under-explored. This study conducts a comparative analysis of the approaches that different countries adopt for standards cooperation with ASEAN. The purpose of this study is to examine how standards are utilized to support trade and development of ASEAN and how cooperation is positioned in the context of AfT. Cases of the EU, Germany, U.S., Australia, and South Korea are evaluated to investigate how major countries cooperate with ASEAN in the area of standardization. We found that standards cooperation approaches are geared towards the harmonization of standards and regulations, and capacity building. These measures are relevant to AfT in that they contribute to the achievement of trade related goals including trade facilitation and the reduction of technical barriers to trade, and thus corresponding to the AfT categories ‘trade policy and regulations’ and ‘productive capacity building’. Besides cooperation in traditional industries, initiatives on digital trade have emerged as a new area for cooperation that can promote ASEAN’s competitiveness in the new trade environment. This study contributes to the theoretical discussions on AfT, identifies practical challenges, and makes suggestions for future standards cooperation with ASEAN.

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