1.   Attorneys for Eagle Exim contended from the day of the seizure that every round the firm imported was legal.

2.   The firm imported a popular Taiwanese rice wine, Michiu.

3.   The Health and Human Services secretary, Tommy Thompson, has blocked a law allowing firms to import drugs, saying federal officials could not guarantee their safety.

4.   Perhaps more so than other foreign residents, the Japanese depend on their firms to import vital goods from home that are impossible or hard to find here.

5.   In a recent soap opera on North Korean state television, a young engineer argues with an older colleague about whether their firm should import foreign equipment.

6.   The law allows these firms to import only raw materials.