Comments by Maria Socorro Gochoco-Bautista, on Markets Matter: The Potential of Intra-Regional Trade in ASEAN and Its Implications for Asian Regionalism.

The author comments on the paper "Markets Matter: The Potential of Intra-Regional Trade in ASEAN and Its Implications for Asian Regionalism" by Lurong Chen, Philippe De Lombaerde and Ludo Cuyvers. She assesses the potential to further develop intra-regional trade in ASEAN. She also discusses the potential of ASEAN to export more to the regional market and the importance of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to ASEAN.