CIS Microfiche Library 1970-2002 (CIS Asia Pacific Collection)

 CIS NO: 79-S382-33
 TITLE: Asian-Pacific Regional Economic Organization: An Exploratory Concept
     Paper.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Relations. Senate
 DOC TYPE: Print                     COLLATION: ix+74 p. il.
 DATE: July 1979
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 96-1              SUDOC: Y4.F76/2:As4/21
 ITEM NO: 1039
 LC CARD NO: 79-602900               MC ENTRY NO: 80-6797

 Report, prepared by Hugh Patrick and John Drysdale (CRS), examines need for
 and feasibility of establishing the Organization for Pacific Trade and
 Development (OPTAD), a proposed regional economic association comprised of
 the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, nine East Asian countries, and
 certain Southwest Pacific islands.
 Appendix (p. 29-74) includes:
 a. Tables on OPTAD countries economic structure (p. 29-39), growth rate
     (p. 40-44), and imports from certain countries, including the U.S.,
     Japan, and Great Britain (p. 50-63).
 b. Descriptions of existing organizations involved in the Pacific area (p.
     65-74).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Organization for Pacific Trade and Dev estab, feasibility
     study
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): PATRICK, HUGH; DRYSDALE,
     JOHN; CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE; PACIFIC OCEAN AREA;
     ORGANIZATION FOR PACIFIC TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (Estab);
     FOREIGN.ECONOMIC.RELATIONS; GREAT BRITAIN (Imports to Pacific area
     nations); INTERNATIONAL.AGENCIES; STATISTICAL DATA: FOREIGN TRADE;
     AUSTRALIA; CANADA; NEW ZEALAND; ASIA; JAPAN