1.   Nobody could finance increased imports of these commodities to provide competition for these producers on the domestic Market.

2.   A Japanese recovery and the promise of increased imports from the U.S. also could help shrink the politically sensitive trade deficit with Tokyo.

3.   Devaluation, on the other hand, leads to increased economic activity which might, in the end, lead to increased imports.

4.   Employment created by increased exports have been offset by jobs lost through increased imports.

5.   In four of those cases, the government found increased imports from Canada were a factor.

6.   Increased imports in the April-June period accounted for much of the widening, the federal statistics agency said.

7.   Increased imports from Latin America would come toward the end of the peak-demand cold-weather season.

8.   Increased imports to the U.S. could come even sooner.

9.   It plans to attack its current account deficit with new export finance credits and increased import tariffs.

10.   Japan is expected to declare zones of Chile free of fruit flies this year, clearing the way for increased imports later this year.