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THE UNITED STATES AND APEC IN 1996 --AND BEYOND
. President William Jefferson Clinton
Since its inception, APEC has been a forum that is focused on the future. In 1993, when I hosted
the first APEC Leaders Meeting at Blake Island, I laid out my vision of an Asia Pacific
community built on shared efforts, shared benefits and shared destiny. Today, the United States
and APEC' s 17 other member economies are well on their way to that goal.
This APEC time capsule is a bridge to the future we are working together to build. When the
capsule was sealed in November 1996, the Lucent Technologies ASIC processor and the Intel
Pentium processor the United States has included as souvenirs-- both provided by SEMATECH,
a consortium of American semiconductor manufacturers, academics and government officials -were at the forefront of an information technology revolution. In our global economy, such
technology is currency -- the motor that drives it and its medium of exchange.
We realize, of course, that today's cutting-edge technology is tomorrow's curious relic. What we
hope to show you when this capsule is opened in 2010 is not merely where we were in 1996, but
where we wanted to go -- and why APEC was crucial to getting us there.
APEC was created in a time of great change. When APEC ministers met for the first time in
Canberra in November 1989, television crews were broadcasting the first pictures ofthe fall of the
Berlin Wall. As barriers continue to crumble, and as the information revolution collapses the
distances between us, a new global economy is transforming the way we work and live. Nowhere
have the benefits been more dramatic than the Asia Pacific region. The Pacific Rim economies are
now the fastest-growing in the world, producing fully one-quarter of our planet's goods and
servtces.
The United States is and will remain a Pacific power. We have vital strategic and economic
interests at stake that affect the lives of each American-- every ·day. And we know that Asia's
stability and growth will benefit America as well. That is why we are so committed to APEC,
which is opening trade, deepening ties, and helping all our people to live out their dreams.
APEC's success is proofthat our energies and aspirations were not misplaced.
APEC itself has become an agent of change. At Blake Island in 1993, APEC Leaders decided to
create a community of Asia Pacific economies and spurred the successful conclusion of the GATT
Uruguay Round-- the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. One year later in Indonesia,
we made a landmark commitment to achieve free trade and investment in the region by 2020.
Last year in Japan, we adopted an Action Plan to get there.
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This year in Manila, we hope to endorse an Information Technology Agreement to eliminate all
tariffs in that sector by 2000. This agreement will cover $1 trillion in products ranging from
computer hardware and software to telecommunications equipment. We will also. do our part to
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open telecommunications.markets. And we all have presented Individual Action Plans (lAPs) for
expanding liberalization and moving our region closer to its goal of becoming the most modern
business environment in the world.
Just as we work toward liberalization, APEC is also about economic cooperation -- establishing
the regional links that are essential to maintaining growth. Some of these ties have immediate
returns, like cooperation in telecommunications, transportation, infrastructure, and safe and
efficient capital markets. Others prepare us for the long road ahead, like helping devise policies
that promote environmentally sound growth, human resource development, and the ability to
develop and absorb new technologies.
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And in all our efforts, we continue to rely on the active contributions of the business community.
Business representatives take part in APEC's ten working groups, where most of the day-to-day
problem solving occurs. An APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC).ensures that business'
voice is heard at the policymaking level.
That's where APEC stands today. Where will it be when this time capsule is opened in 2010?
Given its impressive track record thus far, I think it is fair to expect thatAPEC's developed
economies will have fulfilled their pledgeto achieve free and open trade and investment. But I
also expect that APEC will continue to rise to the challenge of its time -- opening doors, instead
of building walls; seizing opportunities and setting new goals to lift the lives of all our people.
In 1993, I told my colleagues we had an obligation to think boldly and propose tangible steps to
move APEC forward. Each year since then, our actions have become more focused and APEC's
progress toward trade and investment liberalization has become more concrete. Along the way,
we have talked about our problems, forged relationships and created shared expectations about
our common responsibilities and our common future.
I laid out my vision of that future at Blake Island. I imagine an Asia-Pacific region in which
robust and open economic competition is a source of jobs and opportunity without becoming a
source of hostility, instability, or unfairness. I imagine a region in which the diversity of our
economies remains a source of dynamism and enrichment. I imagine a region in which newly .
emerging economic freedoms are matched by greater individual freedoms, political freedoms, and
human rights.
It is my hope that future generations will look back and say that the Asia Pacific region is more
peaceful and prosperous than ever -- and that APEC helped enable its stunning success.
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