About APTS

The Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS) aims to provide the forum for exchanging research ideas in the field of international trade and investment. The APTS will hold annual conferences at universities in the Asia Pacific region. The conferences are open to researchers and graduate students worldwide who work on theoretical or empirical aspects of international trade and investment.

Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the twenty-first annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS) will be held on July 4-5, 2026 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The conference is open to researchers and graduate students worldwide who work on theoretical or empirical aspects of international trade and investment. We invite prospective speakers to submit a paper (less preferably an abstract of the paper) in the pdf format to apts[at]econ.hit-u.ac.jp by April 20. We will notify the acceptance decision by May 1. Upon acceptance for presentation, we request that authors submit full papers in pdf format by June 15.

Past Meetings

• 2025 University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• 2024 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
• 2023 Deakin University, Melbourne
• 2022 University of Tokyo (online), Tokyo
• 2021 University of Tokyo (online), Tokyo
• 2019 University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• 2018 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• 2017 Foreign Trade University, Hanoi
• 2016 National Taiwan University, Taipei
• 2015 Australian National University, Canberra
• 2014 Sogang University, Seoul
• 2013 Singapore Management University, Singapore
• 2012 Southeast University, Nanjing
• 2011 University of Hawaii, Hawaii
• 2010 Osaka University, Osaka
• 2009 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• 2008 University of Sydney, Sydney
• 2007 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai
• 2006 Kobe University, Kobe
• 2005 Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Board Members

• Kenzo ABE (Chuo University)
• Pao-Li Chang (Singapore Management University)
• Taiji FURUSAWA (University of Tokyo)
• Jota ISHIKAWA (Gakushuin University and Hitotsubashi University)
• Edwin L.-C. LAI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
• Jee-Hyeong PARK (Seoul National University)
• Larry Dongxiao QIU (Lingnan University)
• Martin RICHARDSON (Australian National University)
• Alan WOODLAND (University of New South Wales)
• Laixun ZHAO (Kobe University)

Mailing List

If you would like to receive the call for papers and other announcements about the APTS, please email us at apts[at]econ.hit-u.ac.jp.