11.   The Clinton administration had been considering a new import ban for weeks.

12.   The EU said the U.S. had agreed to limit any import ban to individual regions within countries where swine fever had been discovered.

13.   The import ban was replaced with steep tariffs, prompting nearly a dozen automakers to start exporting their latest models here and begin planning new factories.

14.   The import ban would only be lifted for those countries that participate in the international dolphin conservation program.

15.   The lifting of the import ban is likely to be announced here on Friday at a conference of the American Iranian Council, administration officials said.

16.   The National Pork Producers Council wants congressional negotiators to strip an import ban on Argentine lemons from a pending farm spending bill.

17.   The result was a growing surplus, added to the hundreds of chimps obtained from the wild before the import ban.

18.   This fueled a surge in imports that had started five years ago, when the import ban was lifted.

19.   To keep going, one company, Cargill Cacau, broke the import ban and imported the beans from West Africa in May.

20.   After lifting the earlier import ban, the EU sent a team last month to see if Japanese seafood packagers were observing its sanitary standards.