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The Mystery of Reciprocal Demand for Regional Trade Partnership: Indian Experience in RCEP Regional Value Chains

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  • Chakraborty Debashis

    (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)

  • Chaisse Julien

    (Department of Law, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Office P5537, New Territories, Hong Kong)

Abstract
The decision of a country to join regional trade agreements (RTAs) is guided by its expected welfare gains, though potentials of both trade creation and trade diversion cannot be ruled out through such arrangements. The slow progress of the World Trade Organization negotiations has created a demand for mega-regional trade agreements in the last decade, but the recent US and Indian pullout from Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), respectively, raised a question on their attraction. One of the major underlying objectives of RTAs is to deepen intra-bloc participation in regional value chains (RVCs) and International Production Networks (IPNs), through adoption of reformed rules of origin (ROO) provisions and mutual recognition agreements (MRA) for standard harmonization. This article, through an analysis of the RVC–IPN participation of the RCEP countries, attempts to understand to what extent the Indian pullout from RCEP can be linked to its unfulfilled expectations. The observations indicate that, relatively modest participation in the RVCs, declining domestic value added content of exports and the associated adverse trade balance scenario have critically shaped the Indian standpoint. The evolving Indian orientation towards trade remedy mechanism can be viewed in this backdrop. The analysis concludes that in the post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) period, the Indian decision to consolidate domestic manufacturing sector needs to acknowledge the reality rather than being guided by the rhetoric.

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  • Chakraborty Debashis & Chaisse Julien, 2021. "The Mystery of Reciprocal Demand for Regional Trade Partnership: Indian Experience in RCEP Regional Value Chains," The Law and Development Review, De Gruyter, vol. 14(1), pages 163-214, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:lawdev:v:14:y:2021:i:1:p:163-214:n:7
    DOI: 10.1515/ldr-2020-0078
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    1. Qing Guo & Zishan Mai, 2022. "Do Chinese Photovoltaic Products Have Trade Potential in RCEP Countries? A BP Neural-Network-Improved Trade Gravity Model Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-20, December.

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