21.   It could alleviate the impact of trade barriers in Japan and other Asian countries but also raise concerns in Asia that an economic bloc against it was in prospect.

22.   Kuchma claimed to be indifferent about whether pro-presidential blocs would be included.

23.   Minister Ralph Maraj from Trinidad-Tobago said the Caribbean bloc has been negotiating free trade accords with other South American nations, including Colombia and Venezuela.

24.   Minister Ralph Maraj from Trinidad-Tobago said the Caribbean bloc has been negotiating free trade accords with orther South American nations, including Colombia and Venezuela.

25.   No single political bloc is strong enough to form a new governing coalition on its own.

26.   Now members of the disbanded Soviet-led Warsaw bloc are in a Western embrace.

27.   That first Summit of the Americas concluded that global trade blocs were inevitable.

28.   The ardent free-trade bloc in APEC is the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Thailand.

29.   The bloc is only a few months old.

30.   The bloc is the principal rival of the conservative coalition of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.