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               GLOBAL COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

This database contains a time-series statistical overview of
agricultural trade by the United States, 113 foreign countries, and
principal regions.  It also provides statistics for 15 agricultural
industries.  The database contains various economic statistics,
including export and import shares, indexes of competitive advantage
and disadvantage, correlation coefficients that summarize foreign
trader's overall bilateral complementarity with the United States, and
growth rates of these various statistics.

This database includes all of the tables contained in GLOBAL
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES AND OVERALL BILATERAL COMPLEMENTARITY IN
AGRICULTURE: A STATISTICAL REVIEW, SB-850, December, 1992, by Linda
Scott and Thomas Vollrath, Agriculture and Trade Analysis Division,
Economic Research Service, USDA.  The database also contains
additional tables for countries not included in the publication. 

The following footnotes apply to Tables 160-173:

    1/ RTA = SUM t=1...n [(RTA(t)-RTA(t-1))/ABSV{RTA(t-1)}]/n
    2/ Developing country total does not include planned Asia.
    3/ South Asia total does not include Nepal.

The following footnote applies to Tables 174, 177, 179, 181, 182, 183,
185, 186, and 187:

    1/ RTA = SUM t=1...n [(RTA(t)-RTA(t-1))/ABSV{RTA(t-1)}]/n

The following footnotes apply to Tables 175, 176, 178, 180, and 184:
 
    --- = Not available.

    1/ RTA = SUM t=1...n [(RTA(t)-RTA(t-1))/ABSV{RTA(t-1)}]/n

Each of the tables contained in the database appears in its own Lotus
1-2-3 release 3.1 worksheet file named Tab*.WK3, where *. identifies
the table number shown below.  Tables 32-187 are multiple worksheet
files where data for the years 1989-1977 are on the first page and
data for 1976-1961 are on second page.   

The data source for these statistics was the Trade Yearbook Tape of
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).  

                                    Disk #1:

Table 1         Number of countries revealing global competitive advantages
                in 15 agricultural industries

Share of world trade across regions:

Table 2         Total agriculture
Table 3         Coarse grains
Table 4         Oilseeds
Table 5         Rice
Table 6         Wheat
Table 7         Dairy and dairy products
Table 8         Fats and oils
Table 9         Flour and meal
Table 10        Meat and livestock
Table 11        Coffee, tea, cocoa, and spices
Table 12        Chocolates, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages
Table 13        Fruits and vegetables
Table 14        Nonedible crops
Table 15        Sugar and sweeteners
Table 16        Tobacco and alcoholic beverages

Share of world trade, top 15 countries ranked by 1985-89 average:

Table 17        Total agriculture
Table 18        Coarse grains
Table 19        Oilseeds
Table 20        Rice
Table 21        Wheat
Table 22        Dairy and dairy products
Table 23        Fats and oils
Table 24        Flour and meal
Table 25        Meat and livestock
Table 26        Coffee, tea, cocoa, and spices
Table 27        Chocolates, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages
Table 28        Fruits and vegetables
Table 29        Nonedible crops
Table 30        Sugar and sweeteners
Table 31        Tobacco and alcoholic beverages

International trade, relative trade advantage (RTA), and overall
bilateral complementarity (OBC) with the United States:

Table 32        United States
Table 33        Other developed countries
Table 34        EC
Table 35        Belgium-Luxembourg
Table 36        Denmark
Table 37        France
Table 38        German Federal Republic
Table 39        Greece
Table 40        Ireland
Table 41        Italy
Table 42        Netherlands
Table 43        Portugal
Table 44        Spain
Table 45        United Kingdom
Table 46        EFTA
Table 47        Austria
Table 48        Finland
Table 49        Iceland
Table 50        Norway
Table 51        Sweden
Table 52        Switzerland
Table 53        Other countries
Table 54        Australia
Table 55        Finland
Table 56        Japan
Table 57        New Zealand
Table 58        South Africa
Table 59        Developing countries
Table 60        Latin America
Table 61        Argentina
Table 62        Bolivia
Table 63        Brazil
Table 64        Chile
Table 65        Colombia
Table 66        Costa Rica
Table 67        Dominican Republic
Table 68        Ecuador
Table 69        El Salvador
Table 70        Guatemala
Table 71        Guyana
Table 72        Haiti
Table 73        Honduras
Table 74        Jamaica
Table 75        Mexico
Table 76        Nicaragua
Table 77        Panama
Table 78        Paraguay
Table 79        Peru
Table 80        Trinidad
Table 81        Uruguay
Table 82        Venezuela
Table 83        Middle East/North Africa
Table 84        Algeria
Table 85        Egypt
Table 86        Iran
Table 87        Iraq
Table 88        Israel
Table 89        Jordan
Table 90        Kuwait
Table 91        Libya
Table 92        Morocco
Table 93        Saudi Arabia
Table 94        Syria
Table 95        Tunisia
Table 96        Turkey
Table 97        Yemen Arab Republic
Table 98        Sub-Saharan Africa
Table 99        Benin
Table 100       Burkina Faso
Table 101       Cameroon
Table 102       Chad
Table 103       Ethiopia
Table 104       Gabon
Table 105       Ghana

                                 Disk #2

International trade, relative trade advantage (RTA), and overall
bilateral complementarity (OBC) with the United States:--Continued

Table 106       Ivory Coast
Table 107       Kenya
Table 108       Liberia
Table 109       Madagascar
Table 110       Malawi
Table 111       Mali
Table 112       Mauritius
Table 113       Mozambique
Table 114       Niger
Table 115       Nigeria
Table 116       Rwanda
Table 117       Senegal
Table 118       Sierra Leone
Table 119       Somalia
Table 120       Sudan
Table 121       Tanzania
Table 122       Togo
Table 123       Uganda
Table 124       Zaire
Table 125       Zambia
Table 126       Zimbabwe
Table 127       Dynamic Asia
Table 128       Hong Kong
Table 129       Republic of Korea
Table 130       Malaysia
Table 131       Singapore
Table 132       Taiwan
Table 133       Thailand
Table 134       South Asia
Table 135       Afghanistan
Table 136       Bangladesh
Table 137       India
Table 138       Nepal
Table 139       Pakistan
Table 140       Sri Lanka
Table 141       Other Southeast Asia
Table 142       Indonesia
Table 143       Papua New Guinea
Table 144       Philippines
Table 145       Planned Asia
Table 146       Burma
Table 147       People's Republic of Korea
Table 148       People's Republic of China
Table 149       Vietnam
Table 150       Central Europe/U.S.S.R.
Table 151       U.S.S.R.
Table 152       Central Europe
Table 153       Bulgaria
Table 154       Czechoslovakia
Table 155       German Democratic Republic
Table 156       Hungary
Table 157       Poland
Table 158       Romania
Table 159       Yugoslavia      

International trade and relative trade advantage (RTA) across regions:

Table 160       Coarse grains
Table 161       Oilseeds
Table 162       Rice
Table 163       Wheat
Table 164       Dairy and dairy products
Table 165       Fats and oils
Table 166       Flour and meal
Table 167       Fruits and vegetables
Table 168       Meat and livestock
Table 169       Coffee, cocoa, tea, and spices
Table 170       Chocolates, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages
Table 171       Nonedible crops
Table 172       Sugar and sweeteners
Table 173       Tobacco and alcoholic beverages

Relative trade advantage (RTA), top 15 countries ranked by 1985-89
average:

Table 174       Coarse grains
Table 175       Oilseeds
Table 176       Rice
Table 177       Wheat
Table 178       Dairy and dairy products
Table 179       Fats and oils
Table 180       Flour and meal
Table 181       Meat and livestock
Table 182       Coffee, cocoa, tea, and spices
Table 183       Chocolates, candy, and nonalcoholic beverages
Table 184       Fruits and vegetables
Table 185       Nonedible crops
Table 186       Sugar and sweeteners
Table 187       Tobacco and nonalcoholic beverages

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