William T. Coyle is chief of the Developed Market Economies Branch of the United States Department of Agriculture. Dermot Hayes is assistant professor of agricultural economics at Iowa State University. Hiroshi Yamauchi is professor of agricultural economics at the University of Hawaii.

• Preface -- 1 Pacific Rim Agriculture and Trade: Toward the Twenty-First Century / William T. Coyle -- PART ONE OVERVIEW -- 2 Pacific Basin Economic Prospects, 1990-1994 / Lawrence R. Klein -- 3 Agricultural Development and Trade in the Pacific Rim Countries / Kym Anderson -- 4 Prospects for U.S. Agricultural Exports in the Pacific: The Role of Fast-growing Countries / John W. Mellor -- PART TWO COUNTRY PERSPECTIVES -- 5 Development of Agricultural Policy in Postwar Japan / Yutaka Yoshioka -- 6 Japanese Agricultural Policy: Unfair and Unreasonable? / Fumio Egaitsu -- 7 Japanese Agriculture in the 1990s: An American Perspective / Alan J. Webb and William T. Coyle -- 8 Policies and Profitability in Livestock Feed Sectors of the ASEAN Countries / Allan Rae, Liborio Cabanilla, Tan Siew Hoey, Faisal Kasryno, and Suthad Setboonsarng -- 9 The Response of Thai Agriculture to the World Economy / Ammar Siamwalla, Suthad Setboonsarng, and Direk Patamasiriwat -- 10 China Agricultural Trade Developments and Prospects: With Emphasis on Pacific Rim Countries / Francis C. Tuan and Shi Ru -- 11 Soviet Economic Reforms, Republic Sovereignty, and Pacific Rim Agriculture and Trade / Sergei B. Iliukhin and Kenneth Gray -- 12 Economic Reforms and New Zealand Agriculture / Ron A. Sandrey -- PART THREE A SAMPLING OF APPLIED MODELING RESEARCH -- 13 EMABA: An Econometric Model of Pacific Rim Livestock Markets / David Harris and Ian Shaw -- 14 Exchange Rate Pass-Through Effects in Agriculture / Julian M. Alston, Colin A. Carter, and Marilyn D. Whitney -- 15 The Japanese Beef Policy: Political Preference Function / Thomas Wahl, Dermot Hayes, and Andrew Schmitz -- PART FOUR PROBLEMS AND ISSUES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH -- 16 Problems and Issues for Future Research on Pacific Rim Agriculture and Trade / Hiroshi Yamauchi -- About the Book and Editors -- List of Contributors -- Index.