1.   One of the major methods of achieving a regional economic bloc is to create a Customs Union.

2.   But as the European Union attempts to rival the United States as an economic bloc, trans-Atlantic spats in areas other than golf are becoming more common.

3.   But success in this experiment in economic history could create a newly competitive economic bloc with Germany and France as its anchors.

4.   In the end, the organizers of the conference made it clear that style will be as important as substance at this initial meeting of the two economic blocs.

5.   It will create an economic bloc equal in size to the U.S. economy, and a trading bloc bigger than America.

6.   Plan Puebla-Panama is named for the new economic bloc that extends from the central Mexican state of Puebla to Panama.

7.   When NAFTA was ratified, most Europeans regarded the pact as the linchpin of an eventual Western Hemisphere economic bloc rivaling the European Union.

8.   Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy said Tuesday that the economic bloc Mercosur was dedicated to expanding beyond its regional and continental borders.

9.   Rawlings heads the West African economic bloc that oversaw the talks leading to the accord, and its success would boost his image as a regional leader.

10.   A summit of leaders of the Southern African Development Community, a regional economic bloc, is also scheduled in Harare next week to assess the crisis.