51.   Iranian oil imports are already banned in the U.S.

52.   It would be up to each country to decide whether to ban the imports.

53.   Italians, like most Europeans, have banned imports of genetically modified foods and the use of modified grains.

54.   Japan today banned imports of pork from Taiwan, its largest supplier, setting the stage for price increases and for more imports from the United States and Europe.

55.   Japan and South Korea banned imports of poultry from China this week.

56.   Japan has joined Australia in banning imports of New Zealand fruit and vegetables from the area around an Auckland suburb where Mediterranean fruit fly and larvae have been discovered.

57.   Last year, Germany, a European Union trading partner, tried unsuccessfully to ban the import of British beef.

58.   Many nations ban imports of cuts of meat that contain bones, in which hoof and mouth disease is transmitted, from countries where the disease exists.

59.   Meanwhile, South Korea, in violation of trading rules, bans the import of Japanese books, movies and magazines.

60.   Nonetheless, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden on Thursday banned imports of British beef.