In 2010, a major drought in eastern China damaged the wheat crop, forcing the country to rely on imports.

Of course, increasing import dependence does not necessarily mean less energy security, any more than self sufficiency guarantees uninterrupted supply.

The overall impact of this economic attrition is erosion of the Palestinian production capacity and degradation of people's ability to feed themselves, and therefore increased dependence on imports, especially from Israel.

Of course, increasing import dependence does not necessarily mean less energy security, any more than self sufficiency guarantees uninterrupted supply. Yet greater short term insecurity seems inevitable as geographic diversity of supply is reduced and reliance on vulnerable supply routes grows.

Sometimes they are a precursor to import restraints.

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.

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During those years, the rise in the volume of net imports just balanced the effect of the dollar s fall on the total cost of imports.

They will remain an important source of import demand, especially for high technology and industrial goods.

America and the world would also benefit from a US energy policy that reduces reliance on imports not just by increasing domestic production, but also by cutting consumption, and that recognizes the risks posed by global warming.

Banking on the BRICS

The country relies on Russia for various imports, including petroleum.

But this restructuring will tend to reduce, not increase, import demand, as exports and investment are much more import intensive than consumption.

(c) Imports exports

6350 Import diversification

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First, the production chain must shift from export dependence toward domestic consumption.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

3110 Minimum import prices

3340 Flexible import fees

4110 Advance import deposit

They may increase the import cost in a fashion similar to tariff measures.

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Self reliance and local integration

In other words, the very policy that was supposed to achieve greater energy security is in fact likely to hike prices and lead to greater reliance on foreign energy imports.

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All aggressively promoted investment and exports while discouraging (or remaining agnostic about) imports.

Such a revaluation would also discourage exports and encourage imports, thereby reducing China s chronic trade surplus.

He focused taxation on imports and nonessential goods, like whiskey.

Petrol is being sold in very limited amounts.

Some Chinese have called for a boycott of imports from the Philippines.

This is reminiscent of the defiance of the Supreme Court stay order in September 2004 on iron ore that was shipped from Buchanan port over a period of six months.

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(b) The dependency on a small number of donors.

We will continue to count on such support in the future.

(e) Greater reliance on investment income

Such good practice should be built on and expanded.

(d) Reduced oil import dependency

Russia is genuinely promoting the liberalization of international trade by lowering import duties and applying a special preferential regime to the imports from many developing countries, primarily from the group of least developed countries.

Those investments will drain most of the country s domestic savings and sustain high demand for imports.

The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.

The result will be to raise the prices of China s exports and fuel demand for imports.

For example, the external deficit is narrowing sharply on the back of higher exports and lower imports.