1.   Although the ban affects pigs, sheep, cattle and goats slaughtered after today, Japan at present only imports pork from Taiwan.

2.   A decade ago, the family farmer had the pork business pretty much to himself, and the United States imported more pork than it exported.

3.   Like other Spanish companies that export pork products to the United States, Palacios must import the pork from approved slaughterhouses in other European countries.

4.   Rising sales of U.S. pork to Japan were expected after that country stopped importing pork from Taiwan following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease last March.

5.   One of his crowning achievements was the ultimately successful battle to ban importing pork into the Jewish state.

6.   Singapore no longer imports pork from Malaysia and imposes strict conditions on pig imports.