At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig.
China is now Indiaâs top trading partnerâand one of its least liked. Some of China's mountain of imports into India. India and Chinaâtwo massive, neighboring Asian emerging economies, each home to over a billion peopleâare on the way to forming one of the worldâs largest trade relationships.
Indonesia is one founding member of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (. ). The. countries as a group are the EU's fifth largest trading partner outside Europe, after the United States, China, Russia and Switzerland. However, it ranks only at the fourth position inside the region as EU's trading partner (and 29th overall), with a bilateral merchandise trade just reaching â¬23.5 billion in 2011. 2  Total trade in commercial services between EU and Indonesia in 2011 amounted to â¬3.7bn and represented more than 14% of the total trade.