31.   Organized labor has vilified the Clinton administration for fighting legislation to impose quotas on steel imports.

32.   Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin threatened on Thursday to impose quotas on textile and other imports from the European Union unless its nations lift similar restrictions imposed on Russia.

33.   Quoting an unidentified customs official, Interfax said the government might decide to impose quotas at a later time if it decides imports are undermining domestic producers.

34.   Russia also is expected to impose quotas on imports of cash registers and other electronic items, ITAR-Tass said.

35.   Sanitary napkins are reportedly hard to find in Yogyakarta, prompting one store to impose a quota of two boxes per customer.

36.   Such a filing could prompt Washington to impose tough quotas on Japanese steel imports to the United States.

37.   The EU has already complained about Russian plans to impose quotas on textile and vodka imports from West Europe.

38.   The government imposed the quota in January after Czech apple producers complained they could not compete with much cheeper imports from the EU.

39.   The governments of Japan and Australia launched a joint attack Monday on a U.S. plan to impose new quotas on steel imports.

40.   The Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper quoted Argentine Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo as saying that Brazil would impose no quotas on Argentina cars.