CALENDAR OF ECONOMIC EVENTS FEBRUARY-APRIL 1974

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• Document Release Date: April 9, 1999
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• Publication Date: February 1, 1974
• Content Type: REPORT

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Calendar of Economic Events
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CALENDAR OF ECONOMIC EVENTS*
CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE
Date
FEBRUARY
28 Jan-12 Feb
February-April 1974
Event
Australia's Prime Minister Whitlam will visit Malaysia. Thailand,
Laos, Burma, Singapore, and the Philippines
2 Canadian Trade Delegation to India (financed by Alberta
government)
2-13 International petroleum colloquium (Tripoli)
3-15 Visit to the United States by lbnu Sutowo, Director of Pertamina,
Indonesia's national oil company (Los Angeles, Palm Springs)
4-5 Club of Rome (Salzburg)
4-5 EC Foreign Ministers' Meeting (Brussels)
4-5 US/New Zealaod economic consultation
4-6 First meeting of the Joint Committee on Cooperation in the Peaceful
Uses of Atomic Energy (Washington)
4-8 Pakistani Trade Delegation to Japan
7 GATT: Trade Negotiations Committee (Geneva)
10-18 US Trade Mission to Pakistan
II The President's Foreign Ministers' Conference on Energy
(Washington)
II Japan's Foreign Minister Ohira will lead a delegLtion to the
International Energy Conference in Washington
* See page 5 for a functional and geographic breakdown and statement of US policy
interest. Events in bold face in the chronological s,,quence are considered to be of special
interest. This quarterly calendar is updated and issued on a monthly basis.
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FEBRUARY
(Continued)
I1-12 EC Agricultural Ministers meeting (Brussels)
11-12 IBRD-ADB sponsored Consultative Meeting on Post-War Aid to
Indochina (Paris)
11-15 Meeting of Preparatory Committee for World Food Conference,
organized by UNESCO (New York)
I1-I5 European Parliament meeting (Brussels)
13-14 Working Party 3 (OECD, Paris)
14 Tripoli OAPEC meeting
Mid-month Paris Club meeting (Washington)
Mid-month The six member countries of the Andean Common Market to meet
(Lima)
Mid-month Japanese business delegation to meet oil company and government
representatives in New York and Washington (possible)
18 GATT: Trade Negotiations Committee, Tropical Products Sub-Group
(Geneva)
18-19 Economic Policy Committee (OECD, Paris)
I8-23 Latin American Foreign Ministers to meet with Secretary Kissinger
(Mexico City) (18-20 February preliminary meeting of foreign
ministers)
Third week Ministerial-level meeting of five-member bauxite producers' "club"
(Australia, Guyana, Jamaica, Guinea, and Surinam) (Conakry,
Guh,ca)
22-24 Islamic Summit Conference meeting in Pakistan
25-26 Trade Committee Working Party (OECD, Paris)
25-26 First meeting of US-USSR Joint Trade and Economic Council
(Washington)
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FEBRUARY
(Continued)
25 Feb-5 Mar ECAFE Conference on the current energy crisis (Bangkok)
27-28 Trade Committee (OECD, Paris)
Date not set OECD Oil Committee -- high-level group meeting (Paris)
Date not set Trinidad and Tobago mission to Arab oil-producing countries
Date not set Soviet Economic Delegation to Afghanistan
Date not set Meeting of Arab oil-producing states in Khartoum on aid to selected
African states
Date not set Saudi Arabian trade mission to visit South Korea (possible)
Date not set Executive Director of Tokyo Gas will meet President of EI Paso
Natural Gas in Geneva
Date not set National Peoples Congress to be held in Peking
MARCH
4-5 OECD Executive Committee in S; ec:al Session (XCSS) meeting
(Paris)
6-8 ASEAN meeting on Law of the Sea, in Manila (probable)
11-31 UNCTAD Conference on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences
(Genova)
17 OECD Invisibles Committee (IC) meeting (Paris)
20 Mar-10 Apr Pakistani General Trade Delegation to the United States (stops to
include New York, Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles)
21-23 OECD Committee on Financial Markets (CFM) meeting (Paris)
Date not set Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan to visit the United States
Date not set Belgian trade delegation headed by King Baudouin's brother to visit
Saudi Arabia
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Date Events
MARCH
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Date not set US-Japan-USSR Tripartite talks
Date not set Visit to the United States of the Chinese Council for Promotion
of International Trade
Date not set Visit of Ivan Popov, Deputy Chairman, Bulgarian Council of
Ministers (possible)
Date not set Visit of Emil Razloyov, President, Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce
Date not set Visit of Janos Szita, Head of Secretariat for International Economic
Relations, Hungarian Council of Ministers (possible)
Visit of Ivan Peter, Czechoslovak Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade
(possible)
Joint working group meeting of Kaiser Industries and USSR Ministry
of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy (Moscow)
8-I5 Visit of Secretary of Commerce Dent to the USSR and Eastern
Europe
18 Apr-13 May Spring Canton Trade Fair
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Economic Events, by Area of Interest
Working Party 3
(OECD, Paris)
US Policy Interest
Will discuss short-term capital flows
and controls and balance-of-payments
adjustments in light of the energy
crisis.
International Petro-
leum Colloquium
(Tripoli)
Colloquium on oil consuming and
producing country relations,
sponsored by the first African
Petroleum Conference, may shed light
on the future role of US oil producing
companies.
The President's Foreign
Ministers' Conference
on Energy
(Washington, D.C.)
Meeting of Preparatory
Committee for World
Food Conference,
organized by UNESCO
(New York)
Tripoli OAPEC Meeting
Ministerial-level mcc;ing
of the five-member
bauxite producers'
"club" (Australia,
Guyana, Jamaica,
Guinea, and Surinam)
(Conakry, Guinea)
Will have important implications for
long-run energy supplies and costs and
the long-run trade and
balance-of-paynments effects resulting
from the energy crisis.
To prepare an agenda for the World
Food Conference to be held in
November 1974 in Rome.
Meeting to discuss the use of the Arab
oil weapon as well as present and
future prices.
Will attempt to create a permanent
association to coordinate demands
against the multinational aluminum
companies.
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FEBRUARY
(Continued)
OECD Oil Committee --
High-level group
meeting (Paris)
Will discuss oil consumer problems
resulting from price hikes and supply
constraints.
Club of Rome (Salzburg)
GATT: Trade Negotia-
tions Committee
(Geneva)
GATT: Trade Negotia-
tions Committee,
Tropical Products
Sub-Group (Geneva)
Economic Policy Com-
mittee (OECD, Paris)
Trade Committee
Working Party
(OECD, Paris)
Trade Committee
(OECD, Paris)
OECD Executive
Committee in Special
Session (XCSS)
meeting (Paris)
Heads of state from various countries
will discuss the qualitative aspects of
growth and study development plans
for the third world.
Will approve the work program for
multilateral trade negotiations.
Preparation for multilateral trade
negotiations, followed by weekly
meetings on agriculture, non-tariff
barriers, and tariffs.
Will discuss short-term prospects for
output, employment, and prices in
light of the energy crisis.
An examination of internal policies
and their impact on trade.
An analysis of government purchasing
and recent important developments in
trade policy.
Examination of the use of trade and
other current-account measures in
balance-of-payments adjustments and
assessment of the effects of
international capital movements on
internal and external equilibrium.
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MARCH
(Continued)
UNCTAD Conference on
a Code of Conduct for
Liner Conferences
(Geneva)
OECD Invisibles Com-
mittee (IC) meeting
(Paris)
Ot?CD Committee on
Financial Markets
(CFM) meeting
(Paris)
The United States is a signatory to
many cargo-sharing bilateral maritime
agreements with developing countries.
Special review of inward direct
investment and reservations limiting
the liberalization of direct and
portfolio investment.
Consideration of recent developments
in domestic interest rates and
assessment of the implications of the
petroleum situation for financial
markets.
EC Foreign Ministers'
meeting (Brussels)
EC Agricultural
Ministers' meeting
(Brussels)
European Parliament
meeting (Strasbourg)
EC President Ortoli
visit to Japan
Belgian trade delega-
tion headed by King
Baudouin's brother to
visit Saudi Arabia
Will attempt to formulate EC position
for February Energy Action Group
meeting in Washington. Will also
discuss Mediterranean policy.
Will discuss 1974/75 CAP price
proposals.
Will discuss oil, monetary, and
regional aid problems as well as other
priority community business.
Will discuss oil crisis, establishment of
the EC's mission in Tokyo. and
Japan-EC cooperation in multilateral
trade talks.
To seek a guaranteed supply of Saudi
oil.
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Pakistani Trade Dele-
gation to Japan
Paris Club meeting
(Washington)
The six member coun-
tries of the Andean
Common Mar: