Trang Anh Mac
Ho Chi Minh City University of Law

This paper examines how ASEAN’s Trade Agreements may facilitate the development of technology and innovation across their tariff systems applied to tech related products and services. It compares ASEAN’s non-binding instruments and the provisions of its Mega-Regional Trade Agreements and proposes metrics to appraise the impacts of the Mega-Regional Agreements on IPRs protection in ASEAN countries.

The ASEAN Ideas in Progress series is a collection of in-progress papers, in the early and fluid ‘ideas’ stage, produced from the (2021–ongoing) ASEAN Law Academy Conference on ‘The Rules-Based ASEAN Community’. Please click here to access the working papers published thus far: https://cil.nus.edu.sg/research/asean-law-and-policy/asean-ideas-in-progress/