1.   Or it could mean cutting Russian exports, which would leave the Cubans short of all sorts of things they need.

2.   Crude oil prices surged to a three-week high amid concern that a strike by Nigerian oil workers would cut exports to the United States.

3.   Even so, Russia has never followed through on past promises to cut oil exports, and most analysts here do not expect this time to be different.

4.   Feeling the rising political pressure, the Clinton administration took action against Japan and Brazil for dumping steel, and negotiated an agreement to cut Russian exports.

5.   Falling prices for copper and zinc and a slowdown in fishmeal production cut exports.

6.   Higher wheat prices in the U.S. could cut exports, as other competitors such as Australia and Canada undercut U.S. prices.

7.   On the demand side, the Asian financial meltdown has cut exports by millions of bushels.

8.   Saudi Arabia beseeched the Russians to cut oil exports, to no avail.

9.   The devaluation of several Southeast Asian currencies, and financial turmoil in places such as South Korea, have cut exports of steel, machinery and electronics to Asia.

10.   The possibility that the U.S. will pressure Japan to boost domestic demand to help cut exports will send the yen higher, analysts said.