Elastic logic
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Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia plan to industrialize by forming a cartel to increase rubber prices. They want to be able to control the rubber market and dictate the price. These Asian rubber producers erroneously perceived that giant automobile companies of industrial nations are dictating the low prices. In fact, rubber is cheap because there is lower car production and because the price of oil has gone down. In addition, there is an oversupply of rubber caused by overproduction by Thailand and Indonesia. Furthermore, a natural economic phenomenon lowers world commodity prices in relation to manufactures.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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Under the volcano: Hawaii hopes to tap Asia's booming economies
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Hawaii's economy remains in the doldrums since recessions hit Japan and the mainland US, its main sources of tourists, and it hopes to tap SE Asia as a new source of visitors and investors. However, the US state suffers from an image as small and remote, and it lacks direct links to most of the booming economies. Most Asian carriers fly direct to the mainland US, and would only be interested in Hawaii if they could get cabotage exceptions, which US carriers would oppose unless they in turn receive fifth-freedom rights.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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Dirty work: fertilizer, frustration and industrial espionage
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Rubicon/Pacific Trading Group's new fertilizer AgroStim has found Asian markets hard to break into, but promising developments suggest China, India, and the Philippines may open up soon. The fertilizer, which claims to both outperform and fix the problems of urea-based fertilizers without adverse side effects, has drawn industrial espionage as well as interest. Luck has proven the key to making good connections, however, as more obvious routes to approval ran into entrenched interests that play by their own rules.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1995
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