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| History |
Background of Establishing the Asian WTO Research Network
On May 26, 2004, scholars and experts on WTO law and policy, mostly from Asia, including Mitsuo Matsushita, Akira Kotera, Junji Nakagawa, Takashi Iwamoto, Satoru Yamaguchi, Fumio Kosugi, Ken Matsumoto, Wang Xinkui, Fan Yongming, Feng Jun, Gong Baihua, Max Wang, Nohyoung Park, Seung Wha Chang, Manickam Supperamaniam, Da-Nien Liu, and William Davey, gathered at an informal meeting at the Fair Trade Center, Tokyo. They recognized that it would be useful and meaningful to build an organized networking among Asian scholars who are interested in the WTO matters in facilitating mutual communication and improving academic activities.
In order to have effective and meaningful networking among Asian experts and scholars, they decided to build an internet networking system among the scholars and experts on the WTO and related subjects from Asian countries who are registered as the members of the network; to elect Mitsuo Matsushita as the chair of the Network; to select some participants as the members of the steering committee; and to select the Fair Trade Center of Japan as the secretariat of the Network.
Since the first meeting in Tokyo, the practice has been to hold such meeting and gathering twice a year for the purposes of discussing specific WTO issues and exchanging views on the further cooperation and coordination among experts and scholars throughout Asia. There were more experts and scholars participating the second meeting in Shanghai on December 2, 2004 and the third meeting in Seoul on April 26, 2005. The Asian WTO Research Network has now become an important academic event in Asia focusing on WTO issues.
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