The United States is one of the world's largest consumers of timber and wood products.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

The U.S.government wants to help sell more American farm products on the world market.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

That's the Fairtrade Foundation's idea behind this "tea dance" - letting people know they can choose products that will make a difference half a world away.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

"It is a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports, and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

"It is a strategy in which Asian and Pacific markets are open to our exports, and one in which prosperity around the world is no longer as dependent on American consumption and borrowing, but rather more on American innovation and products."

VOA: standard.2009.11.12