”One of the important questions that need to be answered
is ”what can we realistically expect from the AEC”? The AEC
blueprint crystallizes the answer to the question in its goal of
a single market and production base by 2015, by achieving five
main pillars, namely free trade in goods, free trade in services,
free flow of skilled labour, free flow of investment and a freer
flow of capital, while continuing to reach out to the rest of the
world – the so-called “open regionalism.”