They are also atypical because they are time-sensitive commodities.
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Philippine Trade Secretary Cesar Bautista said earlier that rice has always been a politically sensitive commodity in many countries.
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It was the second day in a row that Clinton used his executive authority to intervene in the market for a politically sensitive commodity.
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This means that the government should be committed to scrapping politically connected monopolies, rationalizing the country's shaky banking system, reducing the subsidies of some sensitive commodities and cutting import duties.
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However, Thailand, too, is a large agricultural exporter, especially of rice, a sensitive commodity in Asia, as well as being a member, along with New Zealand, of a major pro-free trade group.
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Crude oil, considered an inflation-sensitive commodity, was trading at $ 37.90 a barrel, down 28 cents from the 14-year price peak it reached Wednesday, but still high enough to make investors nervous.
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Defaults have been widely distributed among industry sectors, he said, though price-sensitive commodity and shipping companies were among the first to default on their junk debt in the first quarter of last year.
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"We are not backtracking but there will be a more gradual phasedown of tariff reduction, " especially for some sensitive commodities, said Dante Canlas, deputy director general of the National Economic and Development Authority.
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The Journal's opposition highlights the increasing scrutiny given to how, and to whom, companies provide information in an era when new technologies and hair-trigger markets have made information a more valuable and sensitive commodity.
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Crude oil, considered an inflation-sensitive commodity, was trading at $ 37 . 90 a barrel, down 28 cents from the 14-year price peak it reached Wednesday, but still high enough to make investors nervous.