ASEAN Competition Regime

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is consequential as it is one of the world’s dynamic, large and consequential regional integration arrangements (RIAs). ASEAN is also well plugged into the global value chain and markets, with many of its Member States being leading world traders. This subject provides an in-depth view on the development of the ASEAN competition regime (policy and law), both at the regional and national levels. In 2015, the ASEAN Leaders declared the establishment of an ASEAN Community, with the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) being one of its three pillars. To realise the objective of the AEC to become a single market and production base, the ASEAN Member States committed to developing, establishing, and implementing robust competition regime.