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Open Access

Peer-reviewed

Research Article

The role of trade liberalization in promoting regional integration and sustainability: The case of regional comprehensive economic partnership

  • Zhenglong Jia ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    jiazhenglong@asu.edu (ZJ); chenyihan@hainanu.edu.cn (YC)

    Affiliations Hainan University-Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America, Institute of Science of Science, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, Shandong, China

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  • Yuancheng Wang ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Yuancheng Wang, Yuxiang Chen

    Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Hainan University-Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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  • Yuxiang Chen ,

    Contributed equally to this work with: Yuancheng Wang, Yuxiang Chen

    Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliations Hainan University-Arizona State University Joint International Tourism College, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan, China, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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  • Yihan Chen

    Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

    jiazhenglong@asu.edu (ZJ); chenyihan@hainanu.edu.cn (YC)

    Affiliation School of Management, Haikou, Hainan, China

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Retraction

This article [1] reported the use of RunGTAP software and 2014 data from the GTAP 10 database.

Following the publication of this article [1], concerns were raised that the authors of this study did not obtain a formal licence to use the GTAP10 database reportedly used in this study, and that instead access to the database was obtained through an unofficial channel.

PLOS followed up with the corresponding author regarding these concerns, who stated that the RunGTAP software used does not require a license to run aggregations of less than 10 by 10; however, they did not provide a copy of the license required to use the GTAP 10 database to PLOS for editorial review, indicating difficulties locating the relevant information. PLOS followed up with the Center for Global Trade Analysis who confirmed that the RunGTAP software licensing is separate from the GTAP database licensing, a GTAP 10 database is not yet publicly available, and a valid user license is required to analyse data from this database using the RunGTAP software [2, 3, 4].

In light of the absence of proof of a user license from the Center for Global Trade Analysis required for the use of the GTAP 10 database for this study and to publish the dataset and results reported in this article, the PLOS ONE editors retract this article [1].

Owing to the above concerns, the retracted PLOS ONE article was removed from the PLOS ONE website at the time of retraction. The article’s Copyright and Data Availability statements were updated at the time of retraction and removal, and the removed contents are no longer offered under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

YW and YuChen agreed with the retraction. ZJ did not respond to the editorial decision. YiChen either did not respond directly or could not be reached.

23 May 2023: The PLOS ONE Editors (2023) Retraction: The role of trade liberalization in promoting regional integration and sustainability: The case of regional comprehensive economic partnership. PLOS ONE 18(5): e0286355. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286355 View retraction

Citation: Jia Z, Wang Y, Chen Y, Chen Y (2022) The role of trade liberalization in promoting regional integration and sustainability: The case of regional comprehensive economic partnership. PLoS ONE 17(11): e0277977. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277977

Editor: Tianyang Liu, Wuhan University, CHINA

Received: April 20, 2022; Accepted: November 8, 2022; Published: November 23, 2022

Copyright: © 2022 Jia et al. This retracted article was originally published as an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). However, PLOS did not receive documentation confirming that the authors obtained the required license for use of the presented data or for publication of this work.

Data Availability: All simulation processes and data results in the experimental part of this research are from GTAP analysis. The GTAP10 database is property of © 2023 Purdue University. All rights reserved. Access to the database can be obtained through https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/databases/default.asp.

Funding: The research is partly supported by the research fund of Chris Ryan’s Academician Workstation in Hainan Province.

Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.