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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-042-9-0083

THE SPILLOVER EFFECT: HOW THE NEW US TARIFFS MIGHT RESHAPE SOUTHEAST ASIA‘S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND VALUE CHAINS?

Balázs Mayer1
1 John von Neumann University Doctoral School of Public Administration & Management, H-1117 Budapest, Infopark sétány 1/V. Hungary

The author finds it a key aspect that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – practically covering the whole region in question – should strive for maintaining ASEAN centrality and fostering joint actions. In the author’s opinion the future of the regional integration depends on whether Member States can coordinate and cooperate, what’s more overcoming differences of interests, rather than compete in responding to global supply chain shifts. To put it in a regional context, Southeast Asian countries would need to hammer out a joint response and should refrain from reverting back to m

Keywords: international trade, economic integration, global value chains, geoeconomic factors, Southeast Asia

pages: 83-84, online: 2025



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