11.   Sizable stocks in major consumer countries have kept oil prices from rising significantly, an official of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said Tuesday.

12.   The anti-trade lobby insists that neither ivory producer nations nor Japan or other consumer countries can guarantee illegal, poached ivory would not infiltrate legal trade.

13.   The idea of a deadline extension for the new pact was to give consumer countries like China and the U.S. ample time to sign the agreement, Lim added.

14.   Freezing temperatures in North America have led to a sharp rise in gas and heating oil consumption at a time of reduced stocks in consumer countries.

15.   GNI said that consumer countries were getting ready to beef up reserves in the light of an expected price rise in the metal.

16.   In contrast, crude oil prices flared up again, ignited by rock bottom stock levels in consumer countries and a renewed outbreak of tension in Iraq.

17.   Instead, the London expert suggested that the market continued to react to the low level of oil stocks in consumer countries.

18.   A supply deficit will seem even more likely if imminent import figures in key consumer countries confirm the takeoff in consumption.

19.   Another source of worry is dwindling oil stocks in consumer countries.

20.   At the same time, stocks in consumer countries are at low levels.