Nowthethreecountrieshaveset upseparatefreetradeagreements with other nations, butnotasingle treaty in terms offree trade has been completed among the trio.
However, they are now protected through the way they have the legal structure of their businesses set up, making all three entities in question separate.
However, some of those projects, such as the gigantic Three Gorges project on the Yangtze River, due to start generating power in 2009, have created a separateset of environmental problems.