Problems with the ASEAN Free Trade Area Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Solutions for the ASEAN Economic Community
Problems with the ASEAN Free Trade Area Dispute Settlement Mechanism and Solutions for the ASEAN Economic Community
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东盟自贸区争端解决机制存在的问题及东盟经济共同体的解决方案
作者：
Gonzalo. Villalta Puig;L. Tat
东南亚国家联盟(东盟)正在推动更紧密的经济一体化，以保持其作为世界经济自由贸易区的竞争力。到2015年，东盟自由贸易区(AFTA)将转变为东盟经济共同体(AEC)。东盟经济共同体将为该地区创造一个单一的商品、服务和投资市场以及一个单一的生产基地。然而，更紧密的经济一体化需要一个有效的制度来解决因贸易和投资进一步自由化而不可避免地产生的那种争端。为此，东盟于2004年通过了《关于加强争端解决机制的议定书》，为东盟自由贸易区建立了一个近乎基于规则的争端解决机制。自成立以来的十年里，AFTA DSM从未被援引过。本文探讨了东盟自由贸易区争端解决机制的局限性和制约因素，并提出了一种仲裁模式，作为东盟和最终东盟地区经济共同体解决冲突的理想方法。
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is pushing for closer economic integration to maintain its competitiveness as a free trade area in the world economy. The push is to transform, by 2015, the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) into the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).The AEC would create a single market for goods, services, and investments and a single production base for the region. Closer economic integration, however, requires an effective system for the settlement of the kind of disputes that inevitably arise from the further liberalization of trade and investment. To this end, in 2004,ASEAN adopted the Protocol on Enhanced Dispute Settlement Mechanism, which establishes a near rule-based Dispute Settlement Mechanism for the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA DSM). In the decade since its establishment, the AFTA DSM has never been invoked. This article explores the limitations and constraints of the AFTA DSM and proposes an arbitration model as the ideal method of conflict resolution for ASEAN and the eventual AEC.