Abstract
This article examines the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Two complementary time series analyses of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level indicate that significant changes occurred in trade composition during this period. It uses a measure of normalized trade balances, developed by Gagnon and Rose (1995). For the eight bilateral trade relationships, commodities representing 50 to 70 per cent of 1992 dollar trade have shown statistically significant changes in the magnitude and, in some cases, in the direction of normalized trade balances, over the 30-year period. Results support the conclusion that changes in trade patterns in both low-tech industries, such as textiles and clothing and more high-tech industries, such as electronic parts and electronic goods, were important in the development of the East Asian economies.
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