EAEC: East Asia Economic Caucus. A consultative group proposed in the early 1990s by Malaysia which, if implemented, would consist of East Asian countries. See also ASEAN+3.

EALAF: East Asia-Latin America Forum. Now replaced by the Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation.

E-APEC strategy: a framework aimed at creating a digital society adopted in 2001 at the Shanghai Economic Leaders' Meeting. Its three pillars are: (a) to create an environment for strengthening market structures and institutions, (b) to facilitate an environment for infrastructure investment, and (c) to enhance human capacity building and promote entrepreneurship.

Early harvest: agreement among negotiating partners that some of their targets could or should be reached and implemented without waiting for the formal end to the negotiations. The Doha Ministerial Declaration, for example, states that “… agreements reached at an early stage [of the negotiations launched by the Declaration] may be implemented on a provisional or a definitive basis”. An example of an early harvest in the Uruguay Round was the creation of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism. See also single undertaking.

Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization: EVSL. A program for tariff liberalization initiated at the November 1996 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Nine sectors were selected for implementation in 1999: environmental goods and services, energy sector, fish and fish products, toys, forest products, gems and jewellery, medical equipment and instruments, chemicals and a telecommunications mutual recognition arrangement.