11.   To combat illegal imports, a joint task force was formed in October of the EPA, the Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service.

12.   U.S. consulate staff will visit a detained U.S. businessman later today to find out more about his alleged involvement in illegal imports into China, an embassy spokesman said.

13.   Under a federal crackdown called Operation Cool Breeze, eight people have been convicted of illegal CFC imports this year in Florida alone.

14.   Prince Ranariddh is in conflict with the law prohibiting the illegal import of weapons into the country.

15.   A massive blocking of channels for illegal imports in southern China has thus pushed prices higher, the report said.

16.   A sugar glut has recently beset Kenya, most of it caused by illegal imports and circumvention of COMESA trade agreements.

17.   Blaming competition from other Caribbean nations and illegal imports of cooking oil, the Seprod Group of Companies closed its soap, detergent and bleach plants.

18.   Before the new attempt to restrict illegal imports, many Chinese companies were selling products well below their manufacturing costs.

19.   Bosnian Serb officials have publicly accused each other of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars earmarked for illegal imports of arms and oil.

20.   But according to Cheung Chi-sun, endangered-species protection officer for the Agricultural and Fisheries Department, there is no significant increase in illegal imports.