11.   America also seeks to boost its trade links.

12.   American companies, for their part, want more trade links with Latin America so they can compete better against European and Asian rivals.

13.   But after the opening of direct trade links with the mainland, this week has been different.

14.   But he said the risks and opportunities are similar to those in the Russian Far East, whose trade links with Washington have grown despite legal and political obstacles.

15.   But until recently it had no direct trade links to China.

16.   Conventional economic models, which focus on trade links, tend to understate the impact of an American recession on the rest of the world.

17.   Europe has been slow to create new trade links outside its borders, as the United States has with Mexico and potentially other countries of Latin America.

18.   He may have felt that deal would never come about and that he must establish his own trade links.

19.   Historically, the islands have belonged to traders since as early as the ninth century, when Zanzibar became the trade link between Africa and the Arab world.

20.   If direct trade links with Taiwan are restored, the area could boom.