ional Monetary Fund Coordinated Direct Invement Survey (IMF CDIS); AMRO staff calculation that trade and liberalization initiatives alone cannot achieve. integration. ASEAN's roadmap for strengthening the constrain deeper regional integration, including relatively loweran opportunity to consolidate progress and sharpen focus nontariff barriers, advancing services liberalization, specializations. Shallow intraregional investment has further hampered the development of domestic productive capacitiesstandards and interoperable processes. These initiatives and regional production networks. Two reinforcing policy and liberalization initiatives: first, leverage existing linkages mutually recognized. Continued emphasis on the progressive streamlining of nontariff measures, steady liberalization of modern, digitally delivered services, and more effcient market depth, which are critical foundations for deeper cross-border procedures will be especially important. Such intraregional integration; and second, promote greater domestic capability upgrading, intraregional investment, and linkages across borders. Taking together, these pathways offer firm internationalization can take root, positioning trade and broader pathways to sustained ASEAN integration.