1.   The actions come as drug companies are being chastised for contesting a South African law that would allow the government to import cheaper alternatives to name-brand drugs.

2.   The Agriculture Ministry has plans to provide aid to farmers, and the government will import food to compensate for losses caused by the weather pattern.

3.   U.S. officials fear that lifting sanctions would allow the Iraqi government to import an array of products it would use to rebuild its arsenal.

4.   Dos Santos said the government is importing food, medicine, hygiene equipment, cooking utensils, seeds and fertilizer to supply the camps.

5.   Dominican officials are deporting hundreds of Haitians they say are in the country illegally, even as the government is importing thousands of their countrymen to cut sugar cane.

6.   He said a plan for the government to import rice and sell it at subsidized rates could soften inflation.

7.   In recent months the government has been importing rice to supplement harvests that have been affected by a prolonged drought.

8.   In past years, the Philippine government imported soybeans from the United States under the program.

9.   Liberal Party provisional legislator Ho Sai-chu said he knew the government would import foreign labour in the construction industry three months ago.

10.   Oil workers say the government has imported only half of its monthly need for crude oil each of the last three months.