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... US, which absorbs 80% of Canadian exports each year. Canada is the US's largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power. During 2007, Canada enjoyed good economic ...
www.exxun.com/Canada/e_ec.html
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... narcotics proceeds are either laundered or invested in Colombia through the black market peso exchange; important supplier of heroin to the US market; opium poppy cultivation fell 50% between 2003 and 2004 ...
www.exxun.com/Colombia/i_ti.html
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... majority of drug trafficking throughout the country; producer and distributor of ecstasy; significant money-laundering center; major supplier of heroin and largest foreign supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine to the US market
www.exxun.com/Mexico/i_ti.html
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... At the end of 2007, South Africa began to experience an electricity crisis because state power supplier Eskom suffered supply problems with aged plants, necessitating "load-shedding" cuts to residents and businesses ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/e_ec.html
suppliers
Tasmania is one of the world's major suppliers of licit opiate products; government maintains strict controls over areas of opium poppy cultivation and output of poppy straw concentrate; major consumer of ...
www.exxun.com/Australia/i_ti.html
suppliers
... a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis. One notable characteristic of the economy has been how manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors have worked together in closely-knit groups called keiretsu. A second basic feature ...
www.exxun.com/Japan/e_ec.html
suppliers
... Venezuela. Almost all consumer and capital goods are imported, the US and Mexico being the major suppliers. Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the development of agriculture. Budgetary problems hamper reform ...
www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/e_ec.html
suppliers
... improved air connections, resort development, and cruise ship facilities. Agriculture, especially livestock farming, is a second target for growth. Australia and New Zealand are the main suppliers of tourists and foreign aid
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/e_ec.html
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limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; soil degradation; overgrazing; deforestation (much of the remaining forests are being cut down for fuel and building materials); desertification; air and water ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/b_mp.html
supplies
... minority Berbers' ongoing autonomy campaign, large-scale unemployment, a shortage of housing, unreliable electrical and water supplies, government inefficiencies and corruption, and the continuing activities of extremist militants. The 2006 merger of ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/a_fg.html
supplies
... other industrial effluents is leading to the pollution of rivers and coastal waters; Mediterranean Sea, in particular, becoming polluted from oil wastes, soil erosion, and fertilizer runoff; inadequate supplies of potable water
www.exxun.com/Algeria/b_mp.html
supplies
... demand for tropical timber and to domestic use as fuel, resulting in loss of biodiversity; soil erosion contributing to water pollution and siltation of rivers and dams; inadequate supplies of potable water
www.exxun.com/Angola/b_mp.html
supplies
supplies of potable water sometimes cannot meet increasing demand largely because of poor distribution system
www.exxun.com/Anguilla/b_mp.html
supplies
... there are no developed ports and harbors in Antarctica; most coastal stations have offshore anchorages, and supplies are transferred from ship to shore by small boats, barges, and helicopters; a few stations ...
www.exxun.com/Antarctica/g_tr.html
supplies
... Lich (Lake Sevan), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant in spite of its location in a seismically active ...
www.exxun.com/Armenia/b_mp.html
supplies
... a Gulf state. Continued strong growth hinges on Bahrain's ability to acquire new natural gas supplies as feedstock to support its expanding petrochemical and aluminum industries. Unemployment, especially among the young ...
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/e_ec.html
supplies
... past few years despite inefficient state-owned enterprises, delays in exploiting natural gas resources, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation ...
www.exxun.com/Bangladesh/e_ec.html
supplies
inadequate supplies of potable water; poaching threatens wildlife populations; deforestation; desertification
www.exxun.com/Benin/b_mp.html
supplies
... timber are contributing to deforestation; soil erosion from overgrazing and poor cultivation methods (including slash-and-burn agriculture); desertification; loss of biodiversity; industrial pollution of water supplies used for drinking and irrigation
www.exxun.com/Bolivia/b_mp.html
supplies
no natural fresh water resources; drinking water supplies must be met by rainwater catchments
www.exxun.com/CaymanIslands/b_mp.html
supplies
inadequate supplies of potable water; improper waste disposal in rural areas contributes to soil and water pollution; desertification
www.exxun.com/Chad/b_mp.html
