Comunidad del pacífico en perspectiva - Volumen 2

THE MArN nmUST OF CANADA'S RELATIONS WITH". Canadian trade with China tends to be basically exports of cereals and othcr foodstuffs also, along with some minerals such as nickel, copper, and potash. Depending on annual harvest results in China, this grain trade can be somewhat variable, although generally substantial and reliable. This same pattern of exports of raw materials such as wood pulp and lumber, minerals and foodstuffs, is characteristic of our trade relations with most of the other countries of the Far East also; whereas the bulk of our imports from that region llave usually been labour-intensive finished products, frequently with a high technology contento This is particularIy true of Hong-Kong, Korea and Taiwan. It is only with Australia and New Zealand that our two-way trade might be called normal in terms of developed economies. With the Latín American countries bordering on tlle Pacific, the trade mix is more varied than with the Far East. For example, Canada exports foodstuffs, cereals, etc., to Mexíco, but we also import food from Mexico, particularIy winter fTuits and vegetables. ,,ye also exchange industrial goods. The same holds true for Colom– bia, for instance, and certain other Latín American Pacific Rim countries. Generally, the balance oI our trade with Latin America has tended to favour Canada. As regards cooperation for developmem, which is the second major aspect of our economic relations with the countries oI the Pacific region, the budget of the Canadian International Develop– ment Agency (CIDA) in round figures is now roughly one billion dollars Canadian per year. Of that sum about 53 per cent is bi– lateral aid; about 40 per cent is multilateral, wÍth the rest being disbursed among non-governmental organizations or to the Inter– national Development Research Center which the Canadian Go– vernment established in theearly 1970's. Latín America receives about 8 per cent of the bilateral total, that is, about 40 million dollars Canadian annually, with such Pacific Rim countries as El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru, receiving a goodly share oI the total. On the other side oI the Pacific, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua-New Guinea, are currently the main recipients. Canadian developmental assis- 95