This paper, delivered before the Japan Solidarity Committee for Asian Alumni (JASCAA) 1987 Fellowship Seminar, charts out some opportunities for trade cooperation in ASEAN to the year 2000 against an economic backdrop of worldwide balkanization of the international market place under the lingering pressures of global recession and resurgent protectionism. It concludes with the hope that the ASEAN heads of government can develop the political will to take up these new initiatives and larger opportunities for trade cooperation.
