11.   Iraq now relies on private traders for most of its imports outside the oil program, which is mainly carried out in dollars.

12.   Private traders also take food across.

13.   Private traders are not screened.

14.   Private traders in Belarus suspended their strike on Wednesday after President Alexander Lukashenko expressed sympathy for them and promised to personally resolve their standoff with tax authorities.

15.   Small private traders have come to play an important role in the economy of Belarus, which has been slow to reform.

16.   Stocks also are supplemented by private traders.

17.   The food agency acts as a check against hoarding by private traders to force prices upward.

18.   The food minister was accused by the opposition of delaying imports to benefit private traders.

19.   The government must regain its lost leadership role in commerce and tighten control of markets and private traders, the ruling Communist Party ordered Friday.

20.   The newspaper said the people involved in the case included government officials, police officers, office workers, farmers, private traders and foreign businessmen.