Last year, the value of Bordeaux shipments there slumped 7percentt, because of the sour performance of the German economy.
"I read about where 36 to 39 people in Singapore complained to Bausch & Lomb and they stopped shipments there," she said.
No country was more rattled by the new United States stance than Syria, when in the middle of the war American officials accused it of harboring Iraqi leaders or allowing their passage, permitting other Arab fighters to enter Iraq and allowing military shipments there.
In the fourth quarter, Dell shipments there increased 34%.
In a year when purchases of pianos in the U.S. declined by 12%, to 88,000, Pearl River Piano's shipments there in 2001 rose by more than 44%, to 4,200.
According to IDC, PC shipments there decreased 30.7% in volume year-over-year to 2.7 million units in the third quarter of 2013, a decline that reflects the desktop market's slowdown throughout the world.
Even struggling handset maker RIM reached 15% in shipments there.
That means the farmer only makes the trip when he knows the shipment is there, rather than wasting days of travel hoping the shipment is there.
TOKYO — Despite continuing fears over the safety of food from the area of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has lifted a ban on beef shipments from there that it had imposed just a month ago, when meat contaminated with radioactive material was found to have reached Japanese supermarkets.
Page A8 JAPAN LIFTS BAN ON BEEF Despite continuing fears over the safety of food from the area of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan has lifted a ban on beef shipments from there that it had imposed just a month ago.
