101.   Malaysia has been urging fellow members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to promote use of regional currencies among trade partners.

102.   Many business leaders want Balaguer out because they worry his continued presence could strain relations with the United States, which is a major trade partner.

103.   North Korea needs Chinese aid to revive an economy ruined by mismanagement, the collapse of Soviet bloc trade partners and four years of famine.

104.   North of the border in the country that is the biggest U.S. trade partner, attitudes are different.

105.   Nor is Japan the only big U.S. trade partner to have received such treatment.

106.   North Korea lost important trade partners when communism collapsed in the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe.

107.   Now, however, the two nations regard each other as valuable trade partners and counterbalances in their complex relations with other nations.

108.   Now, the two nations regard each other as valuable trade partners and counterbalances in their complex relations with other nations.

109.   Russia has strongly supported the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, but considers Iraq a friend and key trade partner since the Soviet era.

110.   Rubin, a strong advocate of maintaining U.S. overseas assistance, said projects that help developing countries create a more stable commercial environment and potential future trade partners.