21.   The government has never officially announced whether or not it will import rice, but individual officials have admitted that Indonesia has already imported rice.

22.   They accused the United States of threatening their livelihood by forcing the country to further open its market to cheap imported rice.

23.   While long queues formed to buy cheap imported rice sold by the government, commercial prices stayed up.

24.   Indonesia has imported rice over the past few years to offset a shortage in production.

25.   Japan plans to use imported rice which Japanese consumers do not like, to help developing countries, a newspaper said Sunday.

26.   The Finance Ministry said in a statement the tax would be waived, effective this month, on imported rice, corn, soybean, sago and salt.

27.   The government used the imported rice to prevent prices increasing in the dry season.

28.   The project also includes liberalizing prices on imported rice and a reduction in government intervention in that sector.