11.   Taiwan is to ban imports of polychlorobiphenyls, lead batteries and transformers with effect from March.

12.   Under existing EC law, no country has the power to ban waste imports.

13.   And the fact that other governments have waited until this week to ban meat imports from Europe and tighten controls on travellers looks pretty lax.

14.   And the United States has only recently banned imports from other countries in which BSE has been detected.

15.   As a result, more than a dozen countries, including Germany, banned imports of beef from Britain.

16.   As part of a compromise that ended the uprising, Abdel Aziz agreed to ban tobacco imports.

17.   As an example, he argued, Congress can no longer effectively ban imports of products made with child labor.

18.   Austria and Luxembourg have also banned imports of genetic corn amid health concerns.

19.   Basically the bill closes a loophole in earlier legislation, which banned the import of split-run editions.

20.   Austria said it will ban the import of British beef, making a symbolic move to join a growing international boycott.