31.   In the pharmaceutical dispute, the Europeanas claim Canada provides inadequate patent protection which causes losses to European producers of hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

32.   Most European producers would prefer to strike bilateral trade agreements than get dragged into drawn-out international trade disputes.

33.   Since then European producers have faced slumping sales due to consumer fear of eating contaminated beef.

34.   Since then European producers have seen their sales plunge because of a general consumer fear of eating diseased beef.

35.   The Commission took up the case after complaints from European producers.

36.   The mad cow scare in Britain has driven Europeans away from beef and enraged European producers, who blame London for causing their sales to sag.

37.   The import market in Japan is dominated by European producers.

38.   The plan also calls for stronger links with European producers and an expansion of the British film office in Los Angeles in a bid to attract more Hollywood funding.

39.   The quotas, which expired on Friday night, had angered European producers and prompted the European Union to put high tariffs on U.S. corn gluten imports.

40.   The sanctions would price the products involved off the American market and jeopardize the existence of small European producers.