21.   The European Union has closed all livestock markets and banned exports of meat, animals and dairy products from Britain.

22.   The European Union last week banned exports of British beef and beef products for at least six weeks.

23.   The European Commission banned the export of British beef and beef byproducts amid fears that a deadly brain disease could enter the human food chain from British cattle.

24.   The European Union said yesterday it will ban all exports of British beef.

25.   The EU last year banned worldwide exports of British beef after several people in the U.K. died of CJD, arguably from eating BSE-tainted meat.

26.   The EU said yesterday it will ban all exports of British beef.

27.   The government says it will import corn from South Africa, and last month it banned all exports of flour, cooking oil and sugar.

28.   The measure also would ban the export of ANWR oil to any nation except Israel.

29.   The U.S. trade embargo bans export of high-technology equipment to Iran for its alleged support of international terrorism.

30.   There is little official support for the industry at home and exports are banned.