41.   The steel issue has been difficult for the Clinton administration, which was vilified by organized labor for fighting legislation to impose quotas on steel imports.

42.   Top government officials like Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov are talking openly about nationalizing private companies and imposing trade quotas to protect domestic industry.

43.   Vietnam will be added to the list of countries on which it imposes import quotas for brides, it said Friday.

44.   It also followed measures by the United States and other key trade partners to impose quotas on UAE exports of ready-made clothes and textiles.

45.   Brokers said Kenya, the key African producer, was unwilling to enter any forum which had the potential eventually to impose export quotas to regulate world tea prices.

46.   Zedillo also said Mexico would be informing the World Trade Organisation of its intention to impose textile quotas to the allowed limits under the MultiFiber Arrangement.

47.   It imposed quotas on Latin-American banana producers, most of whose output is distributed by US companies.

48.   It also imposes quotas on textiles and other items, and bars imports of various farm products, including fruit, flowers and meat.

49.   Japan has also threatened to impose textile quotas following complaints from Japanese manufacturers that the market is being swamped by cheaper Chinese goods.

50.   Mexico will increase import tariffs in a number of sectors and impose textile quotas to help Mexican business in the current economic troubles, President Ernesto Zedillo said Tuesday.