1.   Import prices rise and since imports are a large fraction of consumption, the consumer price index rises right along with imports.

2.   In many cases those imports are available at a cheaper price than within the Community.

3.   In the U.K. visible imports have traditionally been greater than visible exports.

4.   Grain imports would be necessary, he said, although there had been a fall in the Soviet oil revenues used to pay for them.

5.   Secondly extra-EC agricultural imports were also relatively high.

6.   At the same time imports will now be more expensive.

7.   Imports will be more expensive relative to home-produced goods.

8.   The main imports are synthetic tufted carpets, mainly from North America but increasingly from EC countries -- Belgium followed by Western Germany and Holland.

9.   American film imports were to be reduced significantly, with specific percentage cuts.

10.   America guzzles more oil, but it is also a producer, so its net oil imports are smaller.