Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.
Hosting an Asia-Pacific trade summit in Hawaii a few days earlier, Mr Obama laid out the case for open, liberal trade in Asia.
Throughout Asia, trade to China has gone from 2.2 percent in 1991 to 24.4 percent today while Japan accounted for 22.4 percent of Asian trade and is now down to 13 percent, according to the U.N.
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Finally, let me remind Mr Lingle and other condescending Americans that America's trade with Asia-Pacific is larger than its trade with Europe.
Intraregional trade in Asia climbed from a fifth of the region's total trade after the second world war to a third in the 1980s to over half today.
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From 1992 to 1995 he was US ambassador to Malaysia, and later became the US ambassador to the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation - a body promoting open trade among Asia-Pacific countries.
This development is usually supportive of EM, especially for LatAm and EM Asia via closer trade links.
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Because Asia's trade volumes are proportionately so high, weakness against the dollar gains them more in fresh trade than it loses them in rising debt-service costs.
Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
In fact, until annexed by the Dutch in 1874, the sultanate of Aceh was a distinct and powerful state which at times controlled a large slice of Sumatra and channelled much of South East Asia's trade through its ports.
Some economists reckon the Asia-inspired trade drag will subtract up to 2.5 percentage points from second-quarter growth and will be in evidence well beyond that, as it usually takes six to nine months for trade flows to respond fully to economic changes.
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As one of the main beneficiaries of freer trade, Asia would be a big loser from that.
However, most global trade, Asia's external debt, foreign-exchange liquidity and financial assets are still denominated in dollars.
Early signs of a rebound in trade in Asia are brightening prospects for the region's export-dependent economies.
APEC's formal program contains admirable proposals for further tariff reductions toward the goal of an Asia-Pacific free trade zone.
He gave FORBES ASIA equivocal answers on trade earlier this year.
He said there was a race between European capitals to see who could connect and trade with Asia, Africa and South America, and Heathrow provided the best opportunity.
And their business plan explicitly assumes that a lot of the trade between Asia and America's east and Gulf coasts will be diverted from California's ports to the canal.
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That's what we did with Korea, and that's what I intend to do as we pursue agreements with Panama and Colombia and continue our Asia Pacific and global trade talks.
President Barack Obama said in Tokyo the U.S. will restart talks to potentially take part in a regional Asia-Pacific free trade agreement known as the Trans Pacific Partnership that currently includes Singapore, Brunei, Chile and New Zealand.
Novatek, for example, is building a new port at Sabetta on the Yamal peninsula to service the LNG trade to Asia, with expectations of first gas in 2016 and exports of 15 million tons a year by 2018.
We learn of gunboats bound for America that change direction to head toward Asia and of international trade being affected by the simultaneous disruption of the flow of cotton from the South and the flow of tea from China.
Both depend on commodity exports, both trade heavily within the Asia-Pacific region and there is (almost) free movement in trade, labour and capital between the two countries.
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The Chamber points out that there are over 160 free trade agreements in Asia today, many involving China.
So the recent trade mission to Asia by Cheryl Gillan's successor, David Jones, involved several business class flights.
That's why we launched the Trans-Pacific Partnership to strengthen our trade relations with Asia, the fastest-growing market in the world.
Welsh Secretary David Jones has been recalled from a trade mission in Asia for a vote on regulating the press.
In emerging Asia, the unfreezing of trade finance, a turnaround in stocks and hefty fiscal stimulus are powering a rebound.
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