31.   The trend toward importing food from countries with different agricultural and meat regulations complicates the task of keeping food safe.

32.   Were they importing their food from Spain?

33.   With its economy in shambles and reports emerging of starvation, North Korea badly needs hard currency to import food.

34.   With its economy in shambles, North Korea badly needs hard currency to import food.

35.   With the anti-reform Socialists, the renamed communists, back in power, more and more land fell idle and Bulgaria was forced to import foods it once produced.

36.   In addition, the partial lifting of the embargo against Iraq and the resumption of limited oil exports by Baghdad means the country can start to import food again.

37.   Iraq will import food from any country, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, if the price is competitive, once the UN accord is implemented, he said.

38.   But there is no indication that Pyongyang has used the money to import food, he said.

39.   Under an exemption to UN sanctions, Iraq is allowed to import food and medicine but Iraqi officials said that the lack of hard currency makes this difficult.

40.   Iraq resumed its oil exports Wednesday under the deal and concluded its first contracts to import food.