The colonial sugar industry collapsed during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but sugar remains a key export of the area in independent Indonesia.

Should Congress retaliate by banning Colombian coffee, flowers and shrimp - the country's key legal exports?

States of the region depend largely on a few key exports:

He owns factories which produce mattresses, bottled water and perfume - a key Comorian export.

But the financial crisis has led to a sharp drop in prices for commodities and key exports, and growth is not expected to rise much above 1 percent.

Growth was negative in 2000 because of the difficulty of meeting the conditions of international donors, continued low prices of key exports, and post-coup instability.

Central Province is a key producer of coffee, one of Kenya's key exports.

But one administration official said that he believed the threat of including key British exports on the sanctions list had proved more powerful than actually imposing the duties.

Market prices for key exports like cotton and coffee have fallen steadily.

But floods and a plunge in the price of oil, a key export, rocked Ecuador's finances last year.