This week I participated in
a joint Center for International Law, National
University of Singapore Law School (NUS Law) and Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
plenary in Hanoi. We focused on developing teaching materials on the ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC).
In the interests of
promoting the teaching of AEC law, within and without ASEAN, I am posting below
the syllabus for my Law and Policy of the ASEAN Economic Community course that
I teach at NUS Law School (and the first AEC law course in the world). I hope that
other academics can feel free to add or modify this syllabus; not everyone is
going to teach this course in the same way.
Additionally, Stefano Inama
of UNCTAD and I have a forthcoming book to be published by Cambridge University
Press in 2014, entitled The ASEAN Market in Goods: An Institutional and
Legal Profile (we also cover services, investment and other aspects of the AEC),
which builds upon many of the topics I’ve
discussed in this blog, but in a more rigorous manner (we also have a book on
the rules of origin used in the ASEAN free trade agreements, also due to come
out in 2014 from Cambridge University Press). Both can be used as course textbooks.
So to all those interested
in studying the AEC, we wish you the best in your academic endeavors. This is a
field well worth studying.
Law and
Policy of the ASEAN Economic Community (Syllabus)
Edmund W. Sim
Adjunct
Associate Professor and Partner, Appleton Luff
I.
Introduction
to ASEAN
1.
The ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration), http://www.aseansec.org/1212.htm
2.
Rodolfo C. Severino, ASEAN,
Southeast Asia Background Series No. 10 (ISEAS Publications, 2008)
3.
ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint, http://www.aseansec.org/5187-10.htm
4.
ASEAN Studies Centre, ASEAN
Economic Community Blueprint (ISEAS Publications, 2009)
a. Chapter I: ASEAN Roundtable 2008: ASEAN
Economic Community Blueprint
5.
Cha-am Hua Hin Declaration on the Roadmap for the ASEAN
Community (2009-2015), http://www.aseansec.org/22331.htm
6.
Rodolfo C. Severino, Southeast
Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community: Insights from the Former ASEAN
Secretary-general (ISEAS Publishing, 2006)
a. Chapter 5: Integrating the Regional
Economy (pp. 212-255)
7.
Michael G. Plummer and Chia Siow Yee, eds., Realizing the ASEAN Economic Community: A
Comprehensive Assessment (ISEAS Publishing, 2009)
a. Chapter I: Introduction
II.
ASEAN
institutions
1.
Basic documents
1)
Declaration of ASEAN Concord II, http://www.aseansec.org/15159.htm
2)
ASEAN Charter sections
2.
Organizational structure of Secretariat, Councils, Summit
1)
Summit
2)
Councils
3)
Secretariat
3.
K S Sandhu, Sharon Siddique, Chandran Jeshurun, Ananda
Rajah, Joseph L H Tan, and Pushpa Thambipillai, complied, The ASEAN Reader
(ISEAS Publishing, reprinted 2003)
III.
ASEAN
Charter
1.
ASEAN Charter, http://www.aseansec.org/21829.htm
2.
EPG Report on the Charter, http://www.aseansec.org/19247.pdf
3.
Cebu Declaration on the Blueprint of the ASEAN Charter, http://www.aseansec.org/19257.htm.
4.
Tommy Koh, Rosario G. Manalo, and Walter Woon, eds, The Making of the ASEAN Charter (World
Scientific Publishing, 2009)
5.
Simon S. C. Tay, “The ASEAN Charter: Between National
Sovereignty and the Region’s Constitutional Moment” (2008) 12 Singapore Year
Book of International Law 151-170
6.
Michael Ewing-Chow, “Translating the Design into a Bloc: The
Domestic Implementation of the ASEAN Charter” in S. Tiwari, ed., ASEAN: Life after the Charter (ISEAS
Publishing, 2010)
7.
Tommy Koh, “ASEAN at Forty: Perception and Reality” in
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Regional
Outlook: Southeast Asia 2008-2009 (ISEAS Publishing, 2008)
IV.
Early
Attempts at ASEAN Economic Integration
1.
1987 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Projects, http://www.aseansec.org/6373.htm
1)
ASEAN Urea Project, http://www.aseansec.org/6375.htm
2)
ASEAN Potash Mining Project, http://www.aseansec.org/6384.htm
2.
1987 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Joint Ventures, http://www.aseansec.org/1366.htm
1)
Amended, http://www.aseansec.org/6380.htm
2)
Revised, http://www.aseansec.org/6381.htm
3.
1996 Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industry Joint
Ventures , http://www.asean.org/6385.htm
4.
AICO
1)
Basic Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Complementation, http://www.aseansec.org/6377.htm
2)
Memorandum of Understanding
Brand-to-Brand Complementation on the Automotive Industry under the Basic
Agreement on ASEAN Industrial Complementation, http://www.aseansec.org/6382.htm
3)
Basic Agreement on the ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Scheme,
Apr. 26, 1996, http://www.aseansec.org/6400.htm.
4)
Protocol to Amend the Basic
Agreement on the ASEAN Industrial Cooperation Scheme, http://www.asean.org/16333.htm
5)
AICO Reader
V.
ATIGA
1.
Agreement On The Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT)
Scheme For The ASEAN Free Trade Area, http://www.aseansec.org/1164.htm
2.
Framework Agreements on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation,
http://www.aseansec.org/12374.htm
3. Protocol for the
Accession of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the Framework Agreements on
Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation, http://www.aseansec.org/12372.htm
4. Protocol to Amend
the Framework Agreements on Enhancing ASEAN Economic Cooperation, http://www.aseansec.org/12369.htm.
5.
Protocol on Notification Procedures, http://www.aseansec.org/12367.htm
6.
ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement http://www.aseansec.org/22223.pdf
7.
“Rules of Origin,” AFTA Reader, Vol. 1, Nov. 1993, http://www.aseansec.org/10149.htm.
8.
Operational Certification Procedures for the Rules of Origin
of the ASEAN Common Effective Preferential Tariff Scheme for ASEAN Free Trade
Area,” AFTA Reader. Vol. 1, Nov. 1993, http://www.aseansec.org/10148.htm.
9. Agreement to
Establish and Implement the ASEAN Single Window, http://www.aseansec.org/18005.htm.
10.
Protocol to Establish and Implement the ASEAN Single Window,
11. Paul
Davidson, “The Role of International Law in the Governance of International
Economic Relationships in ASEAN” (2008) 12 Singapore Year Book of International
Law 213–224
12. Kanya
Satyani Sasradipoera , “ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA)” in S. Tiwari, ed., ASEAN: Life after the Charter (ISEAS
Publishing, 2010)
13. David
Parsons, “Challenges to Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community” in S. Tiwari, ed., ASEAN: Life after the Charter (ISEAS
Publishing, 2010)
14. Peter
J. Lloyd, “What is a Single Market? An Application to the Case of ASEAN” in Denis Hew Wei, ed.,
Brick by Brick – the Building of an ASEAN
Economic Community (ISEAS Publishing, 2007)
VI.
Other
ASEAN economic agreements
1.
Investment
1)
Agreement among the Government of Brunei Darussalam, the
Republic of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic
of Singapore and the Kingdom of Thailand for the Promotion and Protection of
Investments, http://www.aseansec.org/6464.htm
2)
Protocol to amend the ASEAN Agreement for the Promotion and
Protection of Investments, http://www.asean.org/6465.htm
3)
Framework Agreement on the ASEAN Investment Area, http://www.aseansec.org/6466.htm.
4)
ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, http://www.14thaseansummit.org/pdf/Outcome_Document/ASEAN%20Compre%20Invest%20Agreement.pdf
5)
Michael R. Reading, “The Bilateral Investment Treaty in
ASEAN: A Comparative Analysis” (1992) 42 Duke Law Journal 679-705
6)
Yap Lai Peng, “The ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement 2009:
Its Objectives, Plans and Progress” in S. Tiwari, ed., ASEAN: Life after the Charter (ISEAS Publishing, 2010)
7)
M. Sornarajah and Rajenthran Arumugam, “An Overview of the
Foreign Direct Investment Jurisprudence” in Denis Hew Wei, ed., Brick by Brick – the Building of an ASEAN
Economic Community (ISEAS Publishing, 2007)
2.
Services
1)
Overview: http://www.aseansec.org/6626.htm
2)
ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services: http://www.aseansec.org/6628.htm
3)
Protocol to Amend the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services:
http://www.aseansec.org/AFAS_Amendment_Protocol.pdf.
4)
ASEAN Sectoral Integration Protocol for the Logistics
Services Sector: http://www.aseansec.org/20881.htm
a.
Appendix 1 – Roadmap for the Integration of Logistics
Services: http://www.aseansec.org/20883.pdf
5)
Roy Clogstoun, Ray Trewin, and Malcolm Bosworth, “Would
Emergency Safeguard Measures Work for Services” (2006) 20 Asian-Pacific
Economic Literature 56-69
3.
ASEAN Framework Agreement on Mutual Recognition Agreements http://www.aseansec.org/6674.htm
4.
Agreement on ASEAN Energy Cooperation, http://www.aseansec.org/6570.htm
5.
ASEAN Framework Agreement on Intellectual Property
Cooperation, http://www.aseansec.org/24526.htm
6.
Transport
1)
ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Inter-State
Transport, http://www.aseansec.org/19867.htm
2)
ASEAN Multilateral Agreement on Air Services, http://www.aseansec.org/22628.htm
3)
ASEAN Multilateral Agreement on the Full Liberalisation of
Air Freight Services, http://www.aseansec.org/22621.htm
4)
ASEAN framework Agreement on
Multimodal Transport, http://www.aseansec.org/17877.htm
5)
ASEAN Framework Agreement on the
Facilitation of Goods in Transit, http://www.aseansec.org/7377.htm
7.
Finance
1)
Overview: http://www.aseansec.org/6319.htm
2)
Protocol to implement the 2nd Package of Commitments on
Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services: http://www.aseansec.org/pdf/fin1.pdf
a.
Horizontal Commitments: http://www.aseansec.org/pdf/fin2.pdf
b.
Schedule of Specific Commitments: http://www.aseansec.org/pdf/fin3.pdf
c.
List of MFN Exemptions: http://www.aseansec.org/pdf/fin1.pdf
3) Protocol to
Implement the 3rd Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN
Framework Agreement on Service: http://www.aseansec.org/20368.pdf
a.
Schedule of Specific Commitments: http://www.aseansec.org/20369.pdf
4) Protocol to
Implement the 4th Package of Commitments on Financial Services under the ASEAN Framework
Agreement on Services: http://www.aseansec.org/agreements/AEC/Finance/Protocol-4th-round.pdf
a.
Schedule of Specific Commitments: http://www.aseansec.org/agreements/AEC/Finance/Protocol-4th-round-schedule.pdf
5)
1997 Ministerial Understanding on ASEAN Finance Cooperation
in Finance http://www.aseansec.org/6306.htm
6)
Memorandum of Understanding on the ASEAN Swap Arrangements http://www.aseansec.org/1388.htm
a.
Supplementary Agreement to the Memorandum of Understanding
on the ASEAN Swap Arrangement: http://www.aseansec.org/6299.htm
b.
Amendments to the Memorandum of Understanding on the ASEAN
Swap Arrangement: http://www.aseansec.org/6300.htm
c.
Third Supplementary Agreement to the Memorandum of
Understanding on the ASEAN Swap Arrangement: http://www.aseansec.org/6301.htm
d.
Fourth Supplementary Agreement to the Memorandum of
Understanding on the ASEAN Swap Arrangement: http://www.aseansec.org/6302.htm
e.
Fifth Supplementary Agreement to the Memorandum of
Understanding on the ASEAN Swap Arrangement: http://www.aseansec.org/6305.htm
7)
Chiang Mai Initiative http://www.mof.go.jp/english/if/regional_financial_cooperation.htm
VII.
Trade
remedies
1.
WTO antidumping agreement
2.
Indonesian, Singaporean and Thai antidumping
legislation
3.
Sample AD case materials (I have some of these)
1) BOPP
from Thailand (Indonesian AD )
2) Mosquito
Coils from Indonesia (Philippine AD)
3) Reinforcing
Bar from Malaysia (Singapore AD)
4.
Safeguard clauses in ASEAN FTAs, WTO, etc.
5.
WTO SCM agreement and ASEAN legislation
VIII.
Dispute
resolution
1.
ASEAN Agreement for the Promotion and Protection
of Investments, http://www.aseansec.org/8007.htm
2.
Protocol on Dispute Settlement Mechanism, http://www.aseansec.org/16654.htm
3.
Protocol to Amend the 1987 Agreement for the
Promotion and Protection of Investments, http://www.aseansec.org/6465.htm.
4.
ASEAN Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement
Mechanism, http://www.aseansec.org/16754.htm
5.
Protocol
to the ASEAN Charter on Dispute Settlement, http://cil.nus.edu.sg/2010/2010-protocol-to-the-asean-charter-on-dispute-settlement-mechanisms/
6.
Yaung Chi Oo Trading Pte. Ltd. v. Government of
Myanmar, 42 ILM 540 (2003).
7.
Thailand-Customs and Fiscal Measures on
Cigarettes from the Philippines, WT/DS/371 (Feb. 7, 2008) (panel report)
8.
Malaysia-Prohibition of Imports of Polyethylene
and Polypropylene, WT/DS/1 (Jan. 10, 1995) (Request for Consultation by
Singapore; Request for Establishment of Panel; Communication from Malaysia).
9.
ASEAN Charter sections
10.
Walter Woon, “The ASEAN Charter Dispute Settlement
Mechanisms”, in Tommy Koh, Rosario G. Manalo, and Walter Woon, eds, The Making of the ASEAN Charter (World
Scientific Publishing, 2009)
11. Relevant
FTA sections
1) ASEAN-Korea
FTA DSM, http://www.aseansec.org/18129.htm
2) ASEAN-China,
http://www.aseansec.org/16635.htm
3) ASEAN-India,
http://www.aseansec.org/16635.htm
4) ASEAN-Australia-NZ
sections
5) ASEAN-Japan
sections
12. Michael
Ewing-Chow, “Culture Club or Chameleon: Should ASEAN Adopt Legalization for
Economic Integration?” (2008) 12 Singapore Year Book of International Law
225-237
IX.
Deviation
from ASEAN Agreements
1.
Protocol on the Special Arrangement for
Sensitive and Highly Sensitive Products, http://www.aseansec.org/1207.htm
2) First
Protocol to Amend the Protocol on Special Arrangements on Sensitive and Highly
Sensitive Products, http://www.aseansec.org/22976.pdf
2.
Protocol
Regarding the Implementation of the CEPT Scheme Temporary Exclusion list, http://www.aseansec.org/12365.htm
3.
Documents
related to delay in CEPT for car imports into Malaysia
4.
Documents
related to Indonesia’s request to renegotiate ACFTA
5.
Joseph
Weiler, “The Transformation of Europe” (1991) 100 The Yale Law Journal (No. 8
Symposium: International Law) 2403-2483
X.
ASEAN’s
relations with other countries and institutions (FTAs, coordination overseas,
legal personality of ASEAN)
1.
ASEAN Committees Abroad,
http://www.aseansec.org/20062.htm
2.
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA, http://www.aseansec.org/22260.pdf
3.
ASEAN-China agreements on trade in goods, http://www.aseansec.org/16646.htm,
and in services, http://www.aseansec.org/documents/acfta/TIS/ASEAN-CHINA-TIS.pdf,
and in investment, http://www.aseansec.org/19105.htm
4.
ASEAN-India agreement on trade in goods, http://www.aseansec.org/22677.pdf
5.
ASEAN-Japan
EPA, http://www.aseansec.org/agreements/AJCEP/Agreement.pdf
6.
ASEAN-Korea FTA on goods http://www.aseansec.org/akfta.htm,
services, http://www.aseansec.org/21111.pdf
and investment, http://www.aseansec.org/22973.pdf
7.
Singapore FTAs
1) Singapore-
India, http://www.fta.gov.sg/fta_ceca.asp?hl=6
2) Singapore-
Japan, http://www.fta.gov.sg/fta_jsepa.asp?hl=7
3) Singapore-Korea, http://www.fta.gov.sg/fta_ksfta.asp?hl=22
4) Singapore-
China, http://www.fta.gov.sg/fta_csfta.asp?hl=27
8.
Simon Chesterman, “Does ASEAN Exist? The
Association of Southeast Asian Nations as an International Legal Person” (2008)
12 Singapore Year Book of International Law 199-211
9.
Michael Ewing-Chow, “Southeast Asia and Free
Trade Agreement: WTO Plus or Bust?” (2004) 8 Singapore Year Book of
International Law 193-206
10. Saw
See-Hock, ed., ASEAN-China Economic
Relations (ISEAS Publishing, 2006)
11. Sueo
Sudo, Evolution of ASEAN-Japan Relations
(ISEAS Publishing, 2005)
12. Nagesh
Kumar, Rahul Sen and Mukul G. Asher, eds. India-ASEAN
Economic Relations: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization (ISEAS
Publishing, 2005)
13. Razeen
Sally, Southeast Asia in the WTO
(ISEAS Publishing, 2004)
