Congress passed legislation this week ordering the Bush administration to suspend shipments to the strategic petroleum reserve, and the administration said Friday it would comply.
During November, South Korea and Japan agreed within KEDO to an American proposal to suspend shipments of fuel oil; in mid-December, America is likely to ask them to agree to suspend the light-water reactor project, too.
In May, Cardinal settled the action brought by the D.E.A. in connection with its Florida sales by agreeing to suspend shipments of controlled drugs, like narcotics, from a facility in that state for two years.
Neither the President nor Mrs. Thatcher would say what they would or could do if President Mikhail S. Gorbachev carried out a threat to suspend shipments of vital supplies, possibly including oil and natural gas, to Lithuania if certain laws are not rescinded in two days.
That incident led Thanet council to write to the Environment Secretary with calls to suspend shipments because of a lack of facilities.
The pull back came after the U.S. Energy Department said it would stop deliveries to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to protect against liability should Congress' bill to suspend shipments to the reserve become law.
"Channel distributors and larger mining farm operators have cut orders with makers of mining graphics cards and mining motherboards or asked them to suspend shipments due to the crypto mining craze waning abruptly from the beginning of April", one of their sources said.
SK Corporation, Korea's biggest oil refiner, suspended shipment of petroleum products to SK Global, responsible for distribution to gasoline stations, but promised to resume delivery today after SK Global's creditors paid SK Global bills totaling 30 billion won ($25 million).
In May, Purdue Pharma suspended shipment of 160-milligram tablets, the strongest dose, saying it was "concerned about the possibility of illicit use of tablets of such high strength". Reports of misuse have led to legal action in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Roche suspended shipments in Canada this week.
Israel responded by periodically suspending shipments of supplies into Gaza.
