2008-11-11 — guardian.co.uk
Brazil said last month it would use its foreign reserves to increase credit lines for exporters finding it hard to get trade finance.
Sri Lanka has secured a credit line to pay for crude oil, who supplies 90 percent of its needs.
Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter, is planning to barter rice for oil from Iran -- a sign that the crisis is forcing countries to return to trading methods that predate even the Middle Ages. (Additional reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide in Paris, Stefano Ambrogi in London, Mark Weinraub in Chicago and Shihar Aneez in Colombo; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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