11.   The removal of these barriers would lead to a direct lowering of costs by reducing the price of imported goods and services.

12.   Analysts said this was consistent with recovery as manufacturers bought more foreign materials, exporters switched to home markets and consumers had money for imported goods.

13.   The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries.

14.   American workers were kept in comfortable barracks, were paid in gold and had access to low-cost imported goods, recreational activities and other amenities.

15.   Analysts said November prices were probably pulled down by falling oil prices and a strengthening of the dollar against the deutsche mark, reducing the costs of imported goods.

16.   An unusually large portion of the increase in inventories consisted of imported goods, notably clothing, they said.

17.   And a weaker dollar eventually means higher prices for imported goods, not only cars but all imports.

18.   Analysts expect the annual growth rate of both indicators to have slowed as a firmer deutsche mark cut the cost of imported goods.

19.   And Fed officials have noted in recent months that a sizable chunk of the recent inventory accumulation consists of imported goods.

20.   And neither European consumers nor corporations have the same lust for foreign imported goods that helped pull Asian countries out of crisis two years ago.