The Trilateral Forum on China-Japan-US Cooperation in the Liberalization of Trade and Investment in the Asia-Pacific Region,

directed by

the University of California's

Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE)

in collaboration with

the Dentsu Institute for Human Studies (DIHS), Japan

and

the Council of Policy and Strategy (CPS), PRC

with the generous support of

the United-States-Japan Foundation

Summary Introduction
BRIE's Trilateral Forum brings together a senior group of public and private-sector representatives from China, Japan and the United States for the purpose of addressing issues involved in the liberalization of trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. This three-year project, created in 1996 with support from the US-Japan Foundation and collaboration from Japan's Dentsu Institute for Human Studies (DIHS) and China's Council of Policy and Strategy (CPS), met last year in Tokyo and Shanghai. First-year work used these meetings to develop understanding of the three national groups' perspectives on broad issues surrounding liberalization.

In its second year, the Forum will meet in Berkeley, Nov. 11-12, 1997, to address finance and currency issues (including the current SE Asian crisis), problems of system friction (with a particular emphasis on China's mixed economy and its role in the liberalization process), and continuing US-Japan economic tensions. The following meeting in Tokyo will continue to explore policy options intended to avert or resolve conflicts in the trade liberalization process. In its final year, the Forum will meet in Beijing and Washington, DC, to examine sectoral implications of liberalization and test the policy recommendations developed in the first two years by applying them to specific sectors.

Trilateral Forum III-Berkeley Meeting, November 11-12, 1997

Participants List
Agenda
Executive Summary

Trilateral Forum IV-Tokyo Meeting, June 18-20, 1998

Trilateral Forum V-Shanghai Meeting, December 10-12, 1998

Trilateral Forum VI-Berkeley Meeting, January 27-29, 2000

Participants List
Agenda

Final Report from Dentsu Institute for Human Studies

Fianl Report from Council of Policy and Strategy

Final Report--An American View