1.   Two nations once at odds are now linked by a year-old peace treaty, budding trade and a regular stream of tourists crossing the Jordan River.

2.   Seoul also told Ukraine and some other former Soviet republics that arms deals with the North could hurt their budding trade relations with the capitalist South, they said.

3.   The main impact has been to freeze budding trade relations between Israel and the Gulf states of Oman and Qatar.

4.   The United States and China will try to resolve a budding trade war over U.S. complaints about pirated music, movies and computer software.

5.   However, Washington deems the EAEC a budding trade bloc.

6.   Washington sees the EAEC as a budding trade bloc.

7.   It has also met stiff opposition from Washington, which sees it as a budding trade bloc.

8.   Mahathir had been at loggerheads with the United States for opposing the formation of an East Asian Economic Caucus it sees as a budding trade bloc.

9.   The Bush government had rejected the EAEC, which would exclude the United States, on grounds it was a budding trade bloc.