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 CIS NO: 96-H461-86
 TITLE: Countdown to Osaka: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or
     Confrontation?
 SOURCE: Committee on International Relations. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iv+113 p.
 DATE: Nov. 9, 1995
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 104-1             SUDOC: Y4.IN8/16:OS1
 ITEM NO: 1017-A-01; 1017-B-01

 Hearing before the Subcom on International Economic Policy and Trade and
 the Subcom on Asia and the Pacific to examine prospects for the Nov. 1995
 summit meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in
 Osaka, Japan.
   APEC is a regional economic organization which includes the U.S. and
 various countries in the Asia-Pacific region as members.
   Focuses on efforts to develop measures to accomplish the goals of the
 Bogor Declaration, adopted during the 1994 APEC summit meeting in Bogor,
 Indonesia, which called for free trade and investment among all APEC member
 countries by 2020.
   Supplementary material (p. 35-113) includes witnesses' written statements
 and:
 -- Securities Industry Association, "Financial Services Liberalization
     and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum" briefing paper, Nov.
     1995 (p. 101-113).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Nov 1995 Osaka
     summit meeting, prospects
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL
     ECONOMIC POLICY AND TRADE. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC.
     HOUSE; ASIA PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION (Osaka Nov 1995 summit
     meeting, prospects); JAPAN; INDONESIA; FOREIGN.ECONOMIC.RELATIONS;
     ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN AREA; FOREIGN.TRADE; FOREIGN.INVESTMENTS;
     CONFERENCES; FINANCIAL REGULATION ("Financial Services Liberalization
     and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum");
     INTERNATIONAL.FINANCE ("Financial Services Liberalization and the
     Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum"); OSAKA, JAPAN; BOGOR,
     INDONESIA

 96-H461-86 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Nov. 9, 1995 p. 3-14, 45-51
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SPERO, JOAN E. (Under Secretary, Economic, Business, and Agricultural
        Affairs, Department of State)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Comments on APEC and related trade policy
     issues.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Nov 1995 Osaka
     summit meeting, prospects
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE

 96-H461-86 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Nov. 9, 1995 p. 15-33, 52-98
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     BERGSTEN, C. FRED (Chairman, APEC Eminent Persons Group)
     VAUGHN, PHILIP M. (Director, Government Relations, Fluor Corp.;
        representing Pacific Business Forum)
     BODDE, WILLIAM, JR. (Senior Advisor, U.S. Member Committee, Pacific
        Basin Economic Council)
     WORKMAN, WILLARD A. (Vice President, International, Chamber of
        Commerce of the U.S)
     ERICKSON, DAVID (First Vice President, American Soybean Association)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Issues relating to APEC and U.S. access to its
     member countries markets; views on upcoming APEC Osaka summit, with
     recommendations for accomplishing goals of the Bogor Declaration
     (related statement, p. 89-94); perspectives on trade policy issues.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Nov 1995 Osaka
     summit meeting, prospects
 DESCRIPTORS: PACIFIC BUSINESS FORUM; CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.;
     AMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION