Regional economic integration aims to promote free trade within a region by removing barriers like tariffs and quotas between member countries. In a free trade area, each country determines its own policies for nonmembers, such as tariffs on imports from outside the bloc. A customs union goes further by adopting a common external trade policy to govern trade relations with nonmember countries.
Regional economic integration aims to promote free trade within a region by removing barriers like tariffs and quotas between member countries. In a free trade area, each country determines its own policies for nonmembers, such as tariffs on imports from outside the bloc. A customs union goes further by adopting a common external trade policy to govern trade relations with nonmember countries.
Regional economic integration aims to promote free trade within a region by removing barriers like tariffs and quotas between member countries. In a free trade area, each country determines its own policies for nonmembers, such as tariffs on imports from outside the bloc. A customs union goes further by adopting a common external trade policy to govern trade relations with nonmember countries.
1. Regional economic integration is designed to promote a free trade within a region to produce benefits for all the member countries. In a free trade area, all barriers to trade good and service among the member countries are removed, such as tariffs, quotas, subsidies, and administrative impediments. In this situation, each country is allowed to determine its own policies with regard to nonmembers, for example the tariff for importing good from nonmember countries may vary from member to member. Furthermore, there is also custom union in the regional economic integration, it will eliminate trade barriers between member countries and adopt a common external trade policy. The common external trade policy will oversee trade relationship between the members and nonmembers.