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Window on the world
The Pacific Rim
Canada has been one of ,the major suppliers of
raw materials to the nations of the world for years.
Our biggest trading partner during the course of
those years has been American manufacturing and
processing companies, but now tides of economics
are turning to the Far East in the Pacific trade
basin. CTV Producer Richard Thomas examines the
three kinds of economic contacts developed in these
areas and what Canada can do to improve her trade
relationships on an international level in the next
episode of the WINDOW ON THE WORLD series
entitled THE PACIFIC RIM, airing Sunday, Oc-
tober 20, 10:00-11:00 p.m. on CKCO-TV.
Little has been done in the past and even now
there is little thought of how to improve on our
economic relationships in the Far East. Exports to
Japan, imports from Korea, Taiwan, and Hong
Kong, foreign aid to Indonesia have all
mushroomed. With these huge trade increases,
Canadian business and government alike have
discovered the need to have a more powerful com-
pact to grips with Asia and in particular Japan, now
the third richest country in the world. Canada now
has the impetus to find out exactly who it is we are
dealing with, what they can sell us and what we can
sell them, at the best advantage for both sides.
No longer closed off at the sea, our Western bor-
ders now reach 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
Wheat, copper, coal and timber are being shipped to
Japan as clothes, toys, televisions and luggage are
shipped here from Hong Kong. The raw materials
from Canadian ,storehouses are helping to build
some of the largest companies in the world and
some Canadian financial leaders want better trade
agreements for Canadian businesses.
WINDOW ON THE WORLD: THE PACIFIC
RIM is produced by Richard Thomas with
Executive Producer .Larry Hertzog. The narrator is
CTV's Harvey Kirck. WINDOW ON THE WORLD
is fully sponsored by the Noranda Group of Com-
panies.