Download or read book The Dimensions of Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Asia written by Mohammed Zakirul Hafez and published by Brill Nijhoff. This book was released on 2004 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive work on the free trade area of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area (AFTA). The author argues that in practice the free trade area of ASEAN is a failure and that, unless AFTA leaders take serious measures to improve it, it will change from being "not that useful" into being completely "useless." Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.