Ц, Баатар2021-07-042021-07-042016-09http://mori.ac.mn:8080/jspui/handle/20.500.12989/1028APEC was established in 1989 in Canberra, Australia with 12 members. Its origins lay with the desire of the founding members to promote economic growth, foster and strengthen trade, and improve living standards. APEC started with a modest program of sectoral and trade negotiations. From the beginning, APEC has seen itself not as a grouping of countries, but of economies, the term emphasizing that the organization discusses economics, not politics. It was also established as a loose consultative forum, with no organization structure or a large bureaucracy supporting it. Indeed, even today, the APEC Secretariat, which is located in Singapore, includes only 23 diplomats seconded from APEC member economies in addition to 20 locally hired staff. It was in 1993 that an annual meeting of APEC Leaders became a regular feature of APEC. Only one year after this first meeting, which was held in the U.S., APEC Leaders took another historic step at their meeting in Bogor, Indonesia. At this meeting, the Leaders declared a bold goal of creating the world’s largest area of free trade and investment by 2020. Within APEC, this challenge became known as the “Bogor Goals.” Under the plan, developed economies would achieve free trade by the year 2010 and developing economies would follow in 2020. APEC’s 21 members today are: Australia; Brunei Darussalam; Canada; Chile; the People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Japan; South Korea; Malaysia; Mexico; New Zealand; Papua New Guinea; Peru; the Philippines; Russia; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; the United States; and Viet Nam. This article delivers the authors assessment of the current status of the Asia- Pacific economic integration, the free trade negotiations taking place in the region and the trend going forward.mnArticle