1.   The differing impact of the price rise on consumer countries is exemplified by comparing Japan with the United States.

2.   The officials are quick to point out that the United States is the largest consumer country of illegal narcotics in the world.

3.   Until recently, the drug-fighting strategies of the United States and many other consumer countries focused on intercepting drugs from producing countries.

4.   High oil prices have sparked protests in consumer countries, most notably in Europe.

5.   Lest the producer countries of Inro forget, the organisation exists for their benefit and not just for the benefit of consumer countries.

6.   Lim said consumer countries should take into account the ill-effects of a fall in rubber prices on economically troubled countries in Southeast Asia.

7.   Lim said the refusal of natural rubber consumer countries to renegotiate intervention rates was totally unacceptable because the price of natural rubber was ridiculously low.

8.   Lim slammed Western consumer countries for bullying Malaysia by fixing an unfair price for rubber.

9.   Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik said both countries believe that rubber consumer countries are being very unfair to producer countries by keeping prices down.

10.   Representatives of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are meeting to coordinate a strategy for an expected drop in oil demand as winter demand ebbs in many consumer countries.