The UK imports 40 of its food supplies.

Mozambique, for example, imports 60 of its wheat consumption, and Egypt imports 50 of its food supplies.

Liberia imports 90 of its rice, a staple food, and is extremely vulnerable to food shortages.

Bahrain depends heavily on food imports to feed its growing population it relies heavily on meat imports from Australia and also imports 75 of its total fruit consumption needs.

Moreover, it would boost food supplies and reduce Afghanistan s exorbitant dependence on imports.

Over the coming century, developing nations will be increasingly dependent on food imports from developed countries.

Moreover, rapid population growth and bungled economic policy have made Iran excessively dependent on food imports.

Much of the land is unsuitable for agriculture, and food accounts for about 20 of imports.

If Europe cut back on its agricultural production, the increase in its own food imports would contribute significantly to a worldwide increase in food prices.

Senegal is a net food importer, particularly for rice, which represents almost 75 percent of cereal imports.

According to press reports, the Territory now imports large amounts of organic food and organically grown produce.

This measure, an additional obstacle to the limited imports of food, came into effect on 24 March 2005.

The paradox of Latin America s food crisis is that, although the region is a major food producer, it sometimes needs to rely on imports to prevent sporadic shortages.

To put this figure into perspective, it represents about 90 per cent of the annual cost of African food imports.

For a farm family of five or six living on one hectare, this means extreme poverty, and for their country, it means reliance on expensive food imports, including food aid.

The idea of supplemental food production beyond rural farming operations and distant imports is not new and has been used during war times and the Great Depression when food shortage issues arose.

The food imports to Cuba are important but so is importation of tools to Cuba for the development of a knowledge economy.

The information restrictions make even less sense when you find out that Cuba imports a great deal of food from the US as compassionate trade.

Grain exports were stopped, and imports from Canada and Australia helped to reduce the impact of the food shortages, at least in the coastal cities.

Intensification of agricultural production is important, all the more for the reason that Bosnia and Herzegovina agriculture does not produce half of the food needed for domestic population more than 50 per cent of Bosnia and Herzegovina imports are food.

US consumers buy imports rather than American made goods because imports are cheaper.

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Mining equipment imports

Because of this, the food of the nobility was more prone to foreign influence than the cuisine of the poor it was dependent on exotic spices and expensive imports.

(b) Unusually high imports in 2003, compensating for unusually low imports in previous year

Its latest strategic plan calls for a self sufficiency ratio of 45 by 2015 and focuses instead on securing the stability of food imports through diversification and free trade agreements.

Now, it imports rice.

Perhaps the most visible political support for absentee agriculture is in Liberia, a small West African country where civil war destroyed agriculture, rendering the population dependent on food imports, even today.

While US imports are declining sharply, German imports are holding up without any economic stimulus plan.

China imports oil from Sudan, and Sudan imports low cost items as well as armaments from China.

Japan imports oranges from California.

The EU already accounts for almost 20 of US imports, and the US for 11 of EU imports.

Leveraging Japan s inability to feed itself, trade negotiators now argue that Japan needs to open up to imports or face being shut out of global food markets by fast growing giants like China.

Emergency support from a few friendly governments has so far limited the erosion of Egypt s foreign currency reserves at a time of mediocre tourism earnings and growing imports of food and other basic necessities.

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The US alone imports 1.5 million barrels a day from West Africa, the same amount it imports from Saudi Arabia.

Reducing the cost of imports is significant because China imports a wide range of consumer goods, equipment, and raw materials.

Some countries have opened their markets to imports others have closed them. Many became dependent on food aid, while some acted on the conviction that eradicating hunger is merely a matter of fostering GDP growth.

Reducing the cost of imports is significant because China imports a wide range of consumer goods, equipment, and raw materials. Indeed, China s total annual imports amount to roughly 1.4 trillion, or nearly 40 of GDP.

As incomes in China grow, imports from other low or middle income countries rise faster than imports from high wage countries.

Manufactured imports into Japan have increased considerably.

Fourth, many cash strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable, owing to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

Russia actually did block imports of Monsanto corn.