1.   Canadian lumber imports surged following the expiration of quotas in April, and the Commerce Department said it will levy the tariff retroactively to May.

2.   Japan has levied no tariff on telecommunications-equipment imports for years, and yet foreign companies have only a minuscule part of that market.

3.   Japanese diplomats told their U.S. counterparts yesterday Japan would not negotiate on auto trade until the U.S. drops its threat to levy punitive tariffs on Japanese cars.

4.   The decision to levy the tariffs comes a year and two months after Mexico began a probe into dumping allegations brought by two Mexican companies.

5.   The publication of a list of Japanese products on which tariffs might be levied could come as early as next month.

6.   Under the new system, a certain volume of imports is taxed at a lower rate, after which a more punitive tariff is levied.

7.   Under the new quota system, a certain volume of imports is taxed at a lower rate, after which a more punitive tariff is levied.

8.   Bush is considering whether to levy tariffs on imported steel as a way of helping the troubled U.S. steel industry.

9.   He urged the commission to find that artificially low import prices are injuring American firms so that the Commerce Department could levy tariffs.

10.   Tariffs have been levied against individual steel products or countries in the past, but not in the across-the-board approach chosen by Bush.