1.   A flood of cheap corn imports is drowning tortilla producers like Minsa in Mexico.

2.   The lawsuit demands an immediate injunction against corn imports pending a full public debate and reevaluation of current policy that permits experimental plots of gene-altered crops.

3.   Austria and Luxembourg already have banned the corn imports, saying the herbicides and antibiotic-resistant chemicals used in its production have not been sufficiently tested.

4.   Corn imports above the quota will still be taxed at the higher rate.

5.   In the spring, the Kenyan government lifted duties on corn imports to make up for the shortfall.

6.   Meanwhile, Zimbabwe seeks massive corn imports to avert starvation in the economically devastated nation.

7.   The Canadian International Trade Tribunal last week decided that the U.S. corn imports had not harmed Canadian corn growers as the Manitoba Corn Growers Association had contended last fall.

8.   The decision sparked an immediate threat of protests from Greenpeace which has tried to block corn imports.

9.   The meager spending for corn imports is foreseen to inch up by next year.

10.   The proposed EU duty on U.S. corn gluten imports would have the same financial impact on the U.S. corn gluten industry, the Commission noted.