41.   Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan want to exempt certain sensitive sectors, notably agriculture, from APEC trade reforms.

42.   Japan, China, South Korea and Taiwan are now seeking to be allowed special treatment in sensitive sectors such as agriculture.

43.   Major agricultural exporters such as Australia and New Zealand have strongly opposed a Japanese proposal for different treatment of sensitive sectors.

44.   Shares in economically sensitive sectors were the losers Monday.

45.   Stocks finished mixed here Thursday as investor shifted into the technology sector and out of sectors sensitive to higher interest rates.

46.   Such fears triggered strong tensions within the bond market, which is the sector most sensitive to worries about inflation.

47.   The decision ends a policy of state subsidies to the politically sensitive sector one month ahead of the original schedule for deregulation, the government said.