31.   Indonesia does not provide any subsidies, while Europe and the US generally set high import tariffs and give export credit subsidies to their farmers, he added.

32.   This, combined with an excessive growth in the money supply, high import and credit extension levels, fuelled inflation.

33.   It was partly a reference to a continued ban on the import of foreign consumer goods and high import tariffs.

34.   Mahathir said the blueprint focuses on the strengthening of economic linkages, expand intermediate and supporting industries and address the issues of high imports of intermediate and capital goods.

35.   Membership is expected to be one factor leading to a reduction of high import tariffs which impede free trade, an EU official said.

36.   Oil prices have been sustained by high imports by western industrialised countries.

37.   Oil prices, which had gained around a dollar and a half over the past week, have been sustained by high imports by western industrialised countries.

38.   Ong said that a strong Singapore dollar would help reduce production costs here, particularly in relation to the high import content in the manufacturing sector.

39.   On the positive side, Bruten said high import levels were partly due to soaring domestic business investment sucking in overseas machinery and equipment.

40.   Ravindra Bhargava, chief of Maruti-Udyog, said the high import content of the new cars would put them at a price disadvantage against local models.