	baldrige to launch far east  drive u s commerce secretary malcolm baldrige leaves on saturday on a day trip to the far east to help spur u s  and improve business relations with china south korea and the philippines u s officials say baldrige will also stop in hong kong to meet british officials and local u s and hong kong businessmen the u s last year had major deficits with three of its asian trading partners south korea billion dlrs hong kong billion and china billion the deficit with the philippines was mln dlrs baldrige will meet south korean president chun doo hwan and  minister rha woong bae on monday to discuss opening south korean markets to more u s goods baldrige will be in peking from april to he will meet zheng tuobin minister for foreign economic relations and  attend a meeting of the u s china joint commission on commerce and  and address a management and training organisation however u s officials said a chief purpose of baldrige s visit would be to discuss relaxed u s rules for transferring modern technology to chinese industries in hong kong baldrige will hold meetings on april with governor david wilson and  and industry secretary eric ho as well as addressing the american chamber of commerce u s officials said baldrige will meet philippines president corazon aquino on april to show continued u s support for her government and to discuss steps it could take to improve the atmosphere for american investment he will also will meet finance secretary jaime ongpin and  and industry secretary jose concepcion reuter 
