Also, some overseas buyers, aware of possible supply problems, have been reluctant to switch orders to Southeast Asian suppliers.

They could not become self-sufficient and remained highly dependent on Asian suppliers, as had their Malay predecessors.

White-hot demand prompted Schwinn to turn to Asian suppliers as a stopgap.

He added that he expected Asian suppliers to compete heavily in the router market for the next decade or so.

Asian suppliers outside of Japan showed the strongest growth last year, increasing their revenue to $18.7 billion in 1995 from $9.8 billion in 1994.

With only a single American company still in line for the federal contract, agency officials are wary of ruling out Asian suppliers.

And Asian suppliers who buy their raw materials outside their country are being hammered by the currency ills, raising their costs.

Melcher Media eventually found an Asian supplier that had perfected a finishing technique for synthetic paper.

But the stocks of several Asian suppliers to the PC maker were battered yesterday on investor fears.

But this year, perhaps because of difficulties among Asian suppliers suffering from financial stress, production has been slow, which has once again tightened the selling period.