Abstract
After analyzing the Regulatory chapter in mega-regional trade agreements, this paper finds that parties involve in mega-regional trade agreements are still conservative about regulatory cooperation, given that regulatory cooperation is an effective tool eliminating regulatory barrier to trade. Many mega-regional agreements already incorporated regulatory cooperation in to their content and aiming high-level cooperation. However, the parties in mega-regional agreements seems outweigh regulatory sovereignty than the benefit of regulatory cooperation, and do not allow other parties and interest group from other parties influence their process of policy making through regulatory cooperation. Therefore, the majority of mandatory regulatory cooperation in mega-regional agreements remains low-level, and high-level regulatory cooperation becomes optional. This paper also review Taiwan’s regulatory cooperation mechanism in FTAs, and try to make suggestions relating the usage and phenomena of regulatory cooperation for Taiwan.