Un área de libre comercio del Pacífico

Authors

  • Kiyoshi Kojima

Abstract

The Pacific is one of the two main centers of world trade and in this sense it is located next to Western Europe. A Pacific Free Trade Area, comprising the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, would appear to have the necessary conditions for effective regional integration. The expanded Pacific area could be the broadest world trade center if there were closer cooperation for business expansion and economic development within the area. It is, however, very difficult to suddenly establish such a free trade area in the world, despite the gigantic potential for development and commercial growth that such integration would bring.

Keywords:

Pacific Basin, Integration, Free Trade, International Economic Relations, Pacific Free Trade Area

Author Biography

Kiyoshi Kojima

Economista japonés, ha colaborado con la Universidad de Economía y Comercio de Tokio, en la Universidad de Leeds (Inglaterra) y la de Princeton (Estados Unidos). Fue director del Secretariado de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo. Es autor de: "Theory of foreign- trade", "Japan's economic development and trade", "Japan in the world economy", "The economics of EEC trade expansion for developing countries", "Japan and a Pacific free trade area", publicado este último por MacMillan, en 1971. Es también editor de Conferences on Pacific trade and development 1968: papers and proceedings.