an all-purpose supporting industry. Similarly, basic metal, plastics and electrical and

electronic products are evolving rapidly for the "supporting" purpose. Indeed, we expect

to see "import substitution" developing hand-in-hand with "export promotion" in the

region.

The export of complete plants will gather momentum especially in Taiwan and

South Korea. Taiwan and South Korea have a better developed capital goods sector

relative to Hong Kong and Singapore. While Taiwan exports more complete plants for

light industries, South Korea exports more for heavy industries. In Taiwan, smaller firms

are doing the export whereas in South Korea the bigger ones are doing it. In both

economies, concessional loans and special funds are given to the manufacturers which

design and export whole-plants.

B. The Nature of Industrial Development

Since the four ANIES are facing rising cost of production, their industries will

continue to change from manufacturing to designing, planning and marketing, and from

processing to non-processing. With the advantage of lower labour and land cost in China.

and in the ASEAN-4, the profitability of most industries in the ANIES who have

relocated manufacturing overseas but have maintained the product design and marketing

departments in the home countries are actually rising rather than falling. This explains

why manufacturing has continued to expand substantially in the 1980s in the ANIES."

Take the garment industry as an example. It is observed that both Hong Kong and

Singapore are moving from garment to fashion. Their fashion wear is going

international, i.e. internationalizing their labels. For examples, the Singapore "Rest and

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