The report provides some important findings and guidance on going forward. The report finds that the ASEAN economic integration agenda has already provided important benefits to the Member States by boosting regional trade flows without adversely affecting the global integration agenda. Integration efforts have also helped to improve trade logistics, lower aggregate trade costs and significantly increase regional investment flows. Progress in services integration, however, has been modest. It is also clear that the potential gains from further integration in all these spheres remain large. The report highlights important pending challenges to achieving the AEC 2015 goals that lie in implementing the services integration agenda as well as the dangers posed by the use of non-tariff measures. It identifies a number of policy and institutional measures that ASEAN can take to address these issues.