1.   A majority of developing countries feared such standards would be used to block their exports and weaken economic growth.

2.   Before any of that can happen, though, the Chinese must accept U.S. nuclear non-proliferation conditions, and Clinton must persuade Congress not to block the exports.

3.   Before the ban on nuclear components can be lifted, the Chinese must accept U.S. nuclear non-proliferation conditions and Clinton must persuade Congress not to block the exports.

4.   But the administration was also distressed over the protectionist measures that blocked American exports of frozen chicken.

5.   Economists said the sharp contraction was largely a result of the jump in exports last February, after the Kobe earthquake blocked exports in January.

6.   He said he planned to ask the United States and other U.N. members to draft a strategy to block opium exports through the countries that border Afghanistan.

7.   Murkowski argued that it made no more sense to block export of Alaskan oil than it would to block the foreign sale of Boeing planes or Pacific Northwest timber.

8.   Norilsk, a big smelting center in north-central Russia, is short of money for winter supplies because frozen rivers have blocked exports of metals.

9.   Not a threat to block energy exports, just a reminder that trade under NAFTA should be free, Chretien said later.

10.   The U.S. says this will block exports of U.S. products worth billions of dollars and is not necessary, because the U.S. has never had a case of BSE.