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ASIA AND PACIFIC RIM SITUATION AND OUTLOOK (New 12/93) Stock #94007
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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Note:  Data distributed with this product may include both published and
unpublished statistics in the public domain.  Distribution in this form
does not imply U.S. Department of Agriculture approval of a particular
data series or statistic, nor does the Department attest to their
accuracy.  Moreover, the Economic Research Service makes no warranty
that data supplied in this form are either accurate transcriptions from
source materials or appropriate for a particular user purpose.
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This disk contains every table appearing in the 1993 edition of the
publication "Asia and Pacific Rim Situation and Outlook".  Note that
Table 30 is available only as a WordPerfect 5.1 file.  All the other
printed tables were translated from their original format (Quattro Pro 5
for Windows files) into Lotus files.  The translation lost all
formatting information and converted almost every formula into a fixed
value.  Most of the Appendix tables contained two "pages" -- a "data"
page with numbers in a crude format, and a "table" page carefully laid
out for publication in the report.  Generally the published table did
not have room for all the years of statistics present in the data page. 
For that reason, and because the fancy formatting was lost in
translation anyway, the data page is normally more useful than the table
page.  Each two-page appendix table in Quattro format was converted into
two Lotus tables.  For example, Appendix Table 2 became ATABLE2A.WK1 and
ATABLE2B.WK1.  The "2A" indicates the first page of Appendix Table 2
(that is, the data page).  Because the published tables were printed in
proportional fonts, textual labels may be truncated when printed in the
typewriter-style, fixed-pitch fonts used in Lotus WK1 files.  Widening
the column with the truncated text should resolve that problem.  Text
which is centered over multiple columns in the original Quattro file
(typically indicating units of measure, such as "1,000 tons") is
[mis]aligned left in the translated spreadsheet.  Although the Lotus
translations are messier than the originals, they include every number
and every label from the Quattro files.

The document which included these tables, the "Asia and Pacific Rim
Situation and Outlook Report" for 1993, can be ordered from ERS-NASS (1-
800-999-6779).  Ask for ERS Publication RS-93-7 ($9.00 domestic or
$11.25 foreign).  You can subscribe to the annual series of six regional
reports, covering world agriculture, for $20 domestic or $25 foreign. 
You also may wish to subscribe to "Foreign Agricultural Trade of the
United States (FATUS)" -- a source of data for many of the present
tables.  A year's subscription (including six bimonthly issues plus two
annual supplements) costs $29.00 in the United States and $36.25
elsewhere.  ERS/NASS distributes a free "Reports" catalog that lists
both paper publications and data products like these files.

The file names and the corresponding published table titles are as
follows:

TABLE01.WK1  Table 1  U.S. agricultural export values by region, 1992
                      and 1993
TABLE02.WK1  Table 2  Economic growth is starting to recover
TABLE03.WK1  Table 3  Income classification for Asia and Pacific Rim
                      countries
TABLE04.WK1  Table 4  Asian food aid in 1992
TABLE05.WK1  Table 5  Retail prices for Asian markets, 1991
TABLE06.WK1  Table 6  Rice production
TABLE07.WK1  Table 7  Rice trade
TABLE08.WK1  Table 8  Wheat production for selected Asian and Pacific
                      Rim countries
TABLE09.WK1  Table 9  Wheat, flour, and products trade for selected
                      Asian and Pacific Rim countries
TABLE10.WK1  Table 10 Japanese beef supply by source
TABLE11.WK1  Table 11 Beef trade in 1992
TABLE12.WK1  Table 12 Pork trade in 1992
TABLE13.WK1  Table 13 Poultry trade in 1992
TABLE14.WK1  Table 14 U.S. imports of tropical commodities in 1991
TABLE15.WK1  Table 15 Sugar supply and demand, 1992/93
TABLE16.WK1  Table 16 Sugar supply and demand, 1993/94
TABLE17.WK1  Table 17 U.S. exports of whole cattle hides by destination,
                      and shares going to each market
TABLE18.WK1  Table 18 U.S. cotton exports by destination
TABLE19.WK1  Table 19 East Asian imports of cotton by supplier, 1987-92
TABLE20.WK1  Table 20 Japanese imports of selected GATT items, 1991
TABLE21.WK1  Table 21 China's trade with neighboring countries in 1992
TABLE22.WK1  Table 22 Agricultural and total trade between the United
                      States and China
TABLE23.WK1  Table 23 Taiwan:  A major market for U.S. farm exports
TABLE24.WK1  Table 24 USDA and State Statistical Bureau stock data
TABLE25.WK1  Table 25 Total grain supply and use for Hebei Province,
                      1985
TABLE26.WK1  Table 26 Credit guarantee shipments to Asia, 1990-92
TABLE27.WK1  Table 27 EEP bonuses for Asian countries, 1990-92
TABLE28.WK1  Table 28 FAS market promotion expenditures in Asia, 1989-91
TABLE29.WK1  Table 29 Market promotion expenditures in Asia by commodity
                      group, 1989-91
TABLE30.DOC  Table 30 Vietnam's seven agroeconomic zones [a WordPerfect
                      5.1 document, NOT a spreadsheet file]
TABLE31.WK1  Table 31 Vietnam's exports and imports
TABLE32.WK1  Table 32 Investment projects in Vietnam
TABLE33.WK1  Table 33 Asian wheat importers are important to the United
                      States
TABLE34.WK1  Table 34 Market shares for wheat in 1991
TABLE35.WK1  Table 35 Key determinants of wheat import purchases in 1992
TABLE36.WK1  Table 36 Japanese beef and citrus quotas
TABLE37.WK1  Table 37 Japanese imports of prepared and preserved beef
                      products
TABLE38.WK1  Table 38 U.S. exports to Japan of beef, oranges, and citrus
                      juice
TABLE39.WK1  Table 39 Selected statistics for Japanese structural change
ATABLE1.WK1  Appendix Table 1  Summary of agricultural indicators (most
                               recent data)
ATABLE2A.WK1 Appendix Table 2  Population, macroeconomic, and trade data
                               [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE2B.WK1 Appendix Table 2  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE3A.WK1 Appendix Table 3  Imports of principal agricultural
                               commodities & U.S. shares  [page 1 of 3]
ATABLE3B.WK1 Appendix Table 3  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE3C.WK1 Appendix Table 3  [Same as above, page 3]
ATABLE4A.WK1 Appendix Table 4  U.S. agricultural exports (fiscal years)
                               [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE4B.WK1 Appendix Table 4  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE5A.WK1 Appendix Table 5  U.S. agricultural imports (fiscal years)
                               [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE5B.WK1 Appendix Table 5  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE6A.WK1 Appendix Table 6  Agricultural production (1,000 tons)
                               [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE6B.WK1 Appendix Table 6  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE7A.WK1 Appendix Table 7  Prices of agr. goods [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE7B.WK1 Appendix Table 7  [Same as above, page 2]
ATABLE8A.WK1 Appendix Table 8  Consumer price indexes, fiscal years
                               (1990 = 100)  [page 1 of 2]
ATABLE9.WK1  Appendix Table 9  Per capita food consumption

For further questions concerning the use or interpretation of these
data, please contact:

          Michael Lopez
          Economic Research Service, USDA
          1301 New York Avenue, NW, Room 637
          Washington, DC 20005-4788
          (202) 219-0610.

                   

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