When Russia banned grain exports in August, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin made the announcement himself and outed his fear that Russians would starve.
Colombia, with its 45 million consumers, has long seemed a prime market for U.S. exports in the region.
But Malaysia cut off gasoline exports ahead of the bilateral meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and U.S. President Barack Obama during the Nuclear Summit in Washington early in the week of April 11.
This has made its exports more expensive and, in the view of Prime Minister Abe, acted as a significant brake on growth.
Last November, Turkey's deputy prime minister confirmed suspicions among many economists that a surge in Turkish gold exports to Iran was basically an oil-for-gold trade to circumvent sanctions blocking Tehran from international electronic transactions.
The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe favors a weaker currency to help make Japan's exports more competitive in overseas markets, and market expectations of monetary easing have pulled the yen lower against the dollar and other major currencies.
According to British environment watchdog Global Witness, the signature of Hun Sen himself has appeared in the past year on documents authorizing illegal timber exports. (The government banned all exports at the end of 1996.) Cabinet spokesman Khieu Tavika says the Prime Minister only approved the export of old, already felled logs, and that some companies may have "gone beyond" what was authorized.
The yen has depreciated sharply in the past four months, as the new Japanese government headed by Mr. Abe, who became prime minister in December, has embarked on a campaign to weaken the currency as a way to make Japanese exports more competitive abroad.
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko warned on Monday that Ukraine was heading for stagnation, with global demand falling for its key exports - steel and chemicals - and banks unable to extend consumer credit.
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