11.   Moreover, the big threat to the Japanese economy comes not only from reduced exports but from increased imports at low prices.

12.   The company said workforce reduction costs and competitive pressures from increased imports into Brazil hurt Latin American earnings.

13.   The increased imports are helping relieve a shortage of the milder arabica coffee preferred by many U.S. consumers.

14.   The strong yen and increased imports were major factors in price declines last year.

15.   The shortfall could lead to increased imports by China in the weeks ahead.

16.   They also argue that increased imports price U.S. products out of the market.

17.   They also want increased imports.

18.   Those investments resulted in increased imports by Brazil of capital equipment.

19.   Treasury bond prices may move lower, pushing up yields because increased imports and exports are further evidence of strength in consumer spending and industrial production.

20.   Wheeling Pittsburgh and Acme Metals Corp. had to raise yields on recent new issues to entice investors worried about the prospect of increased imports from Asia.