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Since the financial crisis, East Asian countries have worked on bilateral/regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Currently, East Asian countries are working on over 30 FTAs. So far, the United States (U.S.) has exerted its considerable political and economic power in East Asia, but its political and diplomatic position is increasingly shaky for many reasons-emergence of China’s economic and military strength, growing regionalism in East Asia, weakening influence of the Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) forum, and growing anti-American sentiment after the anti-terrorism war. The U.S. will be even more concerned about the development of FTAs in East Asia, since the country will suffer economic and non-economic losses when the East Asian regionalism is developed. This article evaluates a U.S.-Korea FTA in terms of U.S. involvement in East Asian regionalism, and tries to provide an economic assessment of the FTA. This article points out that the U.S. should take advantage of the U.S.-Korea FTA to secure its interests in East Asia and to avoid exclusion from East Asian regional economic integration.

Among various distinctive formulations that have been developed simultaneously in East Asia as of 2009, this paper selected three major paths, ASEAN+3, ASEAN+6 and APEC, to quantitatively examine the economic impacts of Asian regionalization with the CGE model. This paper confirmed previous findings such as the magnitude of economic impact being proportional to the size of membership and the existence of trade diversion effect within all trade blocs. The subsequent KORUS and Korea-EU FTA imposition upon the built CGE base models further verified the effects of hub-and-spoke-ism in East Asia. Jointly, the simulation results implied that the economic impacts of a trade arrangement heavily depend on the subject economy’s reliance on trade with the participating states. It was also found that the impacts were directly proportional to the accrued trade balance of the subject spoke country with both the hub state and the hub-destination. This could have been exaggerated as the scope of this study was limited to East Asia where KORUS FTA was found to be more influential than Korea-EU FTA due to its exceptionally high reliance on the US. On the course of this research to verify the aforementioned findings, however, both GTAP 6 and 7 were adopted, and hence, the economic impacts of China’s accession to the WTO in the global trade system were also empirically proven.

November 28, 1967 Factory — Lifting tackle — Hook — Steelworks — Removal of scab — Hook placed under it — Hook suspended from chain of crane — Strain taken up by crane to enable brick to be placed under scab — Whether “raising” operation — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. II. c.34), s. 26(1).

July 21, 1966. Negligence — Contributory negligence — Plaintiff workman crushed by guide car in steelworks — Movement of car without warning after plaintiff discharged from car to repair another vehicle —Car driver's admitted negligence — Plaintiff's assumption that guide car would not be moved — Whether assumption justified — Whether failure to keep a proper look out — Whether contributory negligence. Damages — Quantum — Semi‐paraplegic — Grave injuries to lower part of body — Plaintiff fit for light work and mobile — Proper amount of damages.

DESIGNED to produce 10 tons of either galvanized sheet or coil per hour, the new Birlec‐designed and built galvanizing line at the Ebbw Vale works of Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd. is Britain's largest and most modern plant.

HER Majesty The Queen, accompanied by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, officially opened the Spencer Works of Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd., near to Newport, Mon., on October 26th. The remarkable story of how this, Britain's newest Steelworks, has risen in less than three years from the marshland of Monmouthshire to become the most technically advanced iron and steel plant in the world has been told in the national and international press and many technical journals—and will continue to be told. We are concerned here with details of the lubrication equipment which plays such a vital part in ensuring continuity of production without breakdowns, but a few of the important facts and figures about this new plant will serve to refresh readers memories and to emphasise the important role that lubrication has to play.

In introducing Miss Chevis (of Richard Thomas & Baldwins, Ltd.), Mr. Davies (of Westminster Bank Economic Intelligence Department) said that their two approaches to the subject were rather different.

Outlines a new classification system for buildings and proposes that a new methodology, discounted asset rents (DAR), is used to address the situation. Notes that it has long been accepted that cost can be a valid basis for valuing ‘no market′ properties. Mentions the contractors test, as used in rating, and techniques for ascertaining depreciated replacement costs. Finally a practising valuer comments on the findings of the research.

It is now forty years since there appeared H. R. Plomer's first volume Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667. This has been followed by additional Bibliographical Society publications covering similarly the years up to 1775. From the short sketches given in this series, indicating changes of imprint and type of work undertaken, scholars working with English books issued before the closing years of the eighteenth century have had great assistance in dating the undated and in determining the colour and calibre of any work before it is consulted.

Installed at the Ebbw Vale works of Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd. is a line for continuous galvanizing by the Armco‐Sendzimir process. The Sendzimir process is completely different from the conventional method of sheet galvanizing, and its aim is to overcome some of its known faults by methods of surface preparation and spelter composition that can be constantly controlled.