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Myanmar's external trade, an overview in the Southeast Asian context, Mya Than

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Myanmar's external trade

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an overview in the Southeast Asian context

The grim state of the Myanmar economy in the second half of the 1980s forced the previous government of the Burma Socialist Programme Party to liberalize its external and internal trade. Since the military coup following political chaos in the later part of 1988, Japan, the European Community and the United States have suspended new economic aid to Myanmar. This has led to the present military government, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), to work towards closer cooperation in diplomatic and trade relations with other Southeast Asian countries and to further liberalize its trade sector. This study explores and analyzes Myanmar's external trade and its trade relations with Southeast Asian nations, many of which are members of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN), and raises issues and prospects of economic cooperation with neighbouring countries in the region, including the option for active participation in ASEAN.--, Provided by publisher

1. Introduction -- 1.1. Statistical Evidence: A Prefatory Note -- 2. Historical Perspective of Myanmar's External Trade -- 2.1. Foreign Trade under the Burmese Kings -- 2.2. Foreign Trade after the British Annexation of Lower Burma -- 2.3. Trade under the British Colonial Rule -- 3. Myanmar's External Trade -- 3.1. Export Performance -- 3.1.1. Structure of Exports -- 3.1.2. Principal Export Commodities and Their Prospects -- 3.1.3. Export of Services -- 3.2. Myanmar's Imports -- 3.2.1. Structure of Imports -- 3.3. Trade Balance, Terms-of-Trade, and Their Consequences -- 3.4. Direction of Foreign Trade -- 3.5. Countertrade -- 3.6. Plan Performance in Myanmar's Foreign Trade -- 3.7. Policy and Institutional Changes in Foreign Trade -- 3.8. Myanmar's Informal Trade -- 3.9. Conclusion -- 4. Myanmar-Southeast Asia Trade Relations -- 4.1. Salient Features of Myanmar and Other Southeast Asian Countries -- 4.2. Trade Patterns in Southeast Asian Countries -- 4.3. Myanmar-Southeast Asia Trade -- 4.4. Export and Import Intensity Indices -- 4.5. Balance of Trade -- 4.6. Trade Flows and Trade Preferences of Southeast Asian Countries -- 4.7. Bilateral Trade Relations -- 4.7.1. Myanmar-Indonesia Trade -- 4.7.2. Myanmar-Malaysia Trade -- 4.7.3. Myanmar-Philippines Trade -- 4.7.4. Myanmar-Singapore Trade -- 4.7.5. Myanmar-Thailand Trade -- 4.7.6. Myanmar-Vietnam Trade -- 5. Conclusion: Problems and Prospects