The 2008 ASCC Conference and Business Meeting were held in Piura and Tumbes, Peru on 19-20 June and 21 June 2008, respectively. Topics included Trade Liberalization; Trade Facilitation; Structural Reform; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Regional Institutional Architecture; Education and Innovation; Enhancing Human Security and Prosperity and East-Asian Regionalism and Its Transpacific Implications.