41.   Ekeus said the United Nations needs to have a fully operational monitoring system to assure that Iraq does not import goods to manufacture new weapons.

42.   Harish warned that the trend would continue unless Europe took steps to import more goods from Israel.

43.   However, a stronger dollar also hurts companies that import American goods or commodities denominated in dollars.

44.   In an immediate step to ease Belarusian economic woes, Yeltsin and Lukashenko agreed to allow Russian and Belarusian companies to import goods from each other at domestic prices.

45.   India will allow Nepal to import goods through Bombay and Kandla ports, he said.

46.   Indonesia is also currently facing serious problems in importing goods because many foreign banks are rejecting letters of credit issued by Indonesian banks.

47.   Iraq is barred from importing any goods except food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies.

48.   Iraq has agreed to reopen a border crossing with Saudi Arabia to import humanitarian goods, a U.N. spokesman said Thursday.

49.   It is normally used by businessmen importing goods from Greece on trucks, which is now impossible.

50.   It said the Palestinian Authority will begin to import goods directly from Egypt and Jordan if restrictions were not lifted.