11.   A WTO appeals panel upheld an earlier ruling that U.S. regulations covering imports of reformulated gasoline favored domestic producers and held foreign importers to a higher environmental standard.

12.   Alan Wolff, a lawyer for LTV and the other domestic producers, said he knew of no problems with the data.

13.   But Bell is the only domestic producer whose future would not be jeopardized by the loss of a major program, the study concludes.

14.   But he also stressed that there could be an indirect benefit from higher imports because they restrain the prices that domestic producers can charge.

15.   But in the United States they would still be held back by import quotas and heavy subsidies to domestic producers.

16.   But tax relief for domestic producers failed to gain much headway in Congress last year and has some opposition again, despite the sharp rise in fuel prices.

17.   But there is no strategic justification for the favors, like reduced royalty payments, that the administration and Congress have been lavishing on domestic producers.

18.   By allowing large quantities of cheaper imports, they could force inefficient domestic producers and distributors to tighten costs and lower retail prices.

19.   Capital inflows mean a stronger ruble, good for ordinary Russians who buy imported goods but trouble for exporters and for domestic producers who compete with imports.

20.   Demand for U.S. exports will decline, while domestic producers contend with cheap imports and the strong dollar.