Unity in Diversity:

ASEAN Perspective:
Economic Cooperati
on

The purposes of the establishment

The purposes of the establishment are to encourage ASEAN
member countries to become a single market, exchange labors,
goods, services, investments, and fund freely, improve the ability of
ASEAN citizen in any competition, reduce the gap of development,
and make ASEAN benefit from being a part of the world and be able
to face more changes and challenges then

Dominant features of
ASEAN Economic
Community

Be a single market

Be a high potential region

The equality of economic

development

Integrating into the global

economy

Economic Cooperation in
ASEAN

ASEAN Free Trade Area

the removal of obstacles to freer trade among
member countries by reducing tariffs to 0-5%
on traded manufactured goods and processed
agricultural products

ASEAN Free Trade Area

-the removal of non-tariff barriers and
quantitative restrictions that limit the
entry of imports

Other Economic Cooperations

Covering several fields such as

Finance Information And Technology,

Telecommunication Agriculture
Transportation Energy Mine
Tourism

All products would be reduced tax to 0

percent by 2010 (for senior members) and 201
5 (for new members).

Mutual Recognition Arrangements

(MRAs)

Engineer

Nurse

Architect

Surveyor

Medical
Practitioners

Dental
Practitioners

Accountant

Tourism
Professionals

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Opportunities when
becoming economic commun
ity

First, It is become a highly

influential market.

Secondly, international trade

among ASEAN countries will be more
expanded.

Next, being a community will

develop a connection and telecommu
nication among ASEAN members.

The last one integration into the

ASEAN Economic Community makes a h
uge regional market.

Difficulties in Establishing
AEC

Unpreparedness of new member (CLMV)

It might take them a long time development gap.

Unpreparedness of both senior and

new member
They cannot accept some conditions in
the economic integration seeing that many
local business sectors want other measures.
They dont want to have tax reduction.

What ASEAN citizen should

aware when AEC upcoming

Be ready and flexible to adjust to the

situations

Increase their English skills

Understand ASEAN history and cultures

to avoid conflicts

Own outstanding skills

Apply Project Based Learning (PBL)

Organization should adjust their

cultures and systems to support the
operations with diverse group of people

How to be Unity in Diversity

Be open minded attitude

toward other countries

Different political systems

Changing battlefield to
trade area

lessen the role of capitalism

Activities for the youth

of ASEAN countries

Training programs for

ASEAN citizens

More channels and

guidelines

Q&A Session