East Asian nations, which not long ago were counted among the more backward, are emerging as dramatically expanding markets as well as tough competitors for the United States. Predictions are that the Pacific-rim economy will expand twice as fast as the rest of the world. Professor Jens...

During the 1950s and early 1960s the trading interests of the US and the EC generally coincided, with the result that tariff negotiations could be held successfully. Since that time the interests of the US and the EC have diverged somewhat, and pressures for increased protection have arisen.

It is often argued that cooperation in the East-West-South triangle may become a very promising way of intensification of the international economic relations. After a contribution from the Western point of view in our journal (Klaus Bolz, No. 11/1976) the following article from the East deals...