21.   U.S. timber companies fear a restrictive treaty might require them to submit to more bureaucratic controls.

22.   Until now foreign investors, slow to come to this former communist country, have been blocked by bureaucratic controls in their financial transactions.

23.   He attributed the high fiscal deficit to unchecked government expenditure and bureaucratic controls which hampered industrial growth and throttled exports.

24.   Business circles hailed the changes but urged the government to hasten the lifting of all bureaucratic controls.

25.   Excessive bureaucratic controls, smuggling and poor competitiveness among state enterprises were harming the economy, he said.

26.   Poor management of imports and bureaucratic control of exports had worsened the trade deficit, he said.