Etsuyo Michida is a Senior Overseas Research Fellow at IDE-JETRO, Japan, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.John Humphrey is Honorary Professor of School of Business, Management and Economics at the University of Sussex, UK.Kaoru Nabeshima is Associate Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, Japan.

• 1. Regulation, Standards, and Risk Management in the Context of Globalization.- 2. Regulatory Diffusion from the EU to Asia.- 3. The Thai Experience Adapting to EU Chemical Regulations.- 4. Diffusion of Private Food Standards from the European Union to Asia.- 5. Preliminary Theoretical Model for Standard Promotion from the Government Point of View.- 6. A Snapshot View of PRER Impacts on Firms in Vietnam, Malaysia and Japan.- 7. Transmission Channels of Requirements for Chemicals in Products to Firms in Vietnam.- 8. Effect of Chemical Safety Standards on Production Cost in Malaysia and Vietnam.- 9. Effects of Chemical Safety Standards on Export Performance in Malaysia and Vietnam.- 10. Diffusion of Quality and Environmental Management System through the Global Value Chains: The Case of Malaysia and Vietnam.- 11. Challenges of EU Chemicals in Products Regulations: The Cases of Thai Firms.

“Regulations and International Trade: New Sustainability Challenges for East Asia is an inspiring book that deepens our understanding of the firm-level adjustment processes in East Asia in response to high-income countries' adoption of product-related environmental and health policies. Its clear and detailed account of the need for capacity building to pave the way for the external effects of product-related environmental and health policies to unfold is one of its major contributions, enriching academic research.” (Katja Biedenkopf, The Developing Economies, Vol. 56 (3), September, 2018)