11.   The Philippines will import rice next year but will temporarily shelve corn imports because of the depreciation of the peso, officials said Wednesday.

12.   The quotas, which expired on Friday night, had angered European producers and prompted the European Union to put high tariffs on U.S. corn gluten imports.

13.   The views of these panels must be unanimous in favor of allowing gene-modified corn imports, Jorgensen said.

14.   Vitarich said it can only join the bidding if government allows the company to purchase the corn imports at a fairly reasonable price.

15.   Zambia faced food shortages unless corn imports arrived soon.

16.   While Manila normally restricts rice and corn imports, the shortages have embarassed the Ramos government and forced it to resort to such imports.

17.   Neither the corn-exporting countries nor a timescale for the rest of the corn imports was specified in the statement.

18.   Only the government is allowed to authorize corn imports under current laws.