[[alternative]]The Economic and Trade Relations of European Union and East Asia

[[abstract]] 歐洲聯盟與東亞區域間的貿易與投資往來自1985年起呈現快速成長，1993年東亞甚至超越北美成為歐盟最重要的貿易伙伴區域。1994年歐盟「面向新亞洲戰略」的提出顯示歐盟對東亞經濟崛起的重視，1997-1998年歐亞雙邊經貿往來雖因亞洲金融危機而短暫受挫，但近年來隨著東亞各國經濟逐漸復甦，並在中國強勁經濟表現的帶動下，歐亞雙邊經貿互動仍維持高度成長。 1985年以來促使歐亞發展更廣泛、緊密經濟夥伴關係的動力來自三方面：歐盟與東亞經濟發展的需求、經濟全球化以及區域經濟整合的壓力。首先，歐盟與東亞的經濟發展有著既競爭且互補的關係，而歐洲市場與東亞市場具有的潛在商機更是提昇雙邊經貿往來的重要誘因。其次，經濟全球化表現在生產模式的轉變、資本流動以及WTO多邊貿易體系的發展上，這也促使歐亞雙邊經貿互動模式與型態的轉變。最後，區域經濟整合使歐盟與東亞逐漸形成兩大貿易區塊，為解決區域經濟整合可能帶來貿易障礙、市場進入、企業及商品競爭力等問題，歐盟與東亞亦透過區域間多邊或雙邊的經貿互動機制來強化經貿關係。 本文的研究重點即是探討在上述三個動力影響下，歐盟與東亞雙邊經貿關係將會如何型塑，其互動模式與制度性安排將會如何發展，最後並評估歐盟與東亞雙邊經貿關係的發展對全球經貿會產生何種影響。 [[abstract]] The bi-regional trade and investment between European Union and East Asia have an overall and rapid growth since 1985. By 1993, East Asia had taken place of North America and become the EU’s most important trade partner. The publication of “1994 Toward New Asian Strategy” showed that the EU would pay more attention to the Asia Miracle than before. Though the setback of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis had made EU feel anxious on EU-East Asia economic relations, the influence of the crisis was temporary. Recovering from the crisis and led by China strongly economic performance, the economic and trade interactions between EU and East Asia still have high growth and become more inter-dependent . Three dimensions would illustrate the driving forces pushing the EU and East Asia to construct a more comprehensive and closer economic partnership: the demand of economic development of the EU and Ease Asia, economic globalization and the pressure from regional economic integration. First, two characteristics of the economic relations between the EU and East Asia are competition and complementary. Besides, the market potential of Europe and East Asian is also the cause for rising the bi-regional economic relations. Second, the economic globalization such as the transformation of product model, capital flows and the challenge of WTO multilateral trade system would bring some changes on the mode and formation of bi-regional economic and trade interactions. Third, taking account of regional economic integration might lead to two regional economic blocs, the EU and East Asia would seek to reduce trade barriers, improve market access and provide fair business opportunities by inter-regional economic and trade interaction arrangement. Based on the three driving forces, this paper discusses how the economic and trade interaction and arrangement between the EU and East Asia will be modeled, formed, and constructed