analyze temporal changes of domestic consumption and production in designated intervals as well as the changes of trade flow at those points in time.

Cotton fabrics (SITC 652), synthetic fabrics (SITC 653) and clothing (SITC 84) are selected as objects of the study. In this subsection, the changing structure of cotton fabrics and synthetic fabrics is studied. As explained earlier, during the 1950's and 1960's, the main textile production was done in cotton products. After wards, that, the share of synthetic products and clothing has been increasing gradually. As the comparative advantage of upstream products, such as yarn, are held by industrial countries, these are left to another study.

To sum up, the flow matrices of cotton fabrics, synthetic fabrics and clothing in the Pacific Asia region from the 1960's to the 1980's enable us to analyze the interrelationship in T&C trade and production during the last thirty years.

## World Textile Flow Matrix

The matrices of cotton fabrics and synthetic fabrics shown in Tables 5 and 6 combine trade matrixes of these items, and supply and demand situations in individual countries or groups of them. In the case of Japan, for example, the row and column represent, respectively, countries of destination of its export and countries of origin of its import. The column sum is Japan's total import and the row sum is its total export. Since Australia and Canada are the industrial countries closest to the Asia region and the United States, respectively, only the import values of these countries are picked up. Their export values are very little.

The total volumes of export and import of these items by individual countries are consulted in the Sen-i handbook (1992), and other similar publications. However, as to synthetic fabrics, it is hard to obtain the Chinese statistics, which occupies a big share in the world synthetic fabrics production. The statistics of Chinese synthetic fabrics are not available in the UN trade statistics. Chinese domestic trade statistics are published only in a rough classification at the two-digit level of SITC. Thus trade statistics between the Asian NIEs or ASEAN and China are not available for synthetic fabrics. The statistics between China and industrialized countries, such as Japan, the United States and the EC members, are obtained from the OECD trade statistics. The tables are represented in terms of volume because, in terms of value, there are differences depending on ways of pricing, such as f.o.b. and c.i.f. At first, the amount of export, import and production are obtained from textile statistics of each country. The other denomination, such as yard, square yard and ton are converted to square meter by average converting rates. As the matrix presented in terms of volume is not presented in UN the Trade Statistics, the amount of export in each country are allotted to each cell (horizontal direction) by export share of each country, which is calculated by matrices in terms of value. When all the cells obtained by this way are summed by the columns (vertical direction), it is difficult to exactly match the calculating result with the import consulted from domestic statistics of each country. This is because of different sources of statistics and differences of price and quality which are caused by calculation in one unit price.

The clothing matrix is represented in terms of value. Because it is impossible to obtain domestic production statistics of each country, and a wide range of product diversification