31.  If domestic supplies run out, the higher cost of imported meat could drive customers away, said Graham Bidston, head of the National Federation of Meat Traders.

32.  Increasing exports of palm oil products over the past six months have resulted in shrinking domestic supplies.

33.  It put new, unannounced restrictions into effect in April out of concern for dwindling domestic supplies.

34.  It remains bent on increasing domestic supplies of oil and gas to reduce foreign exchange expenses and protect supplies from the uncertainties of the international market.

35.  Oil companies are slowing down their purchase of refined petroleum products, but there is no need to worry about the domestic supply, Energy Secretary Francisco Viray said.

36.  Rice distributed by Bulog makes up only part of the domestic supply because not all locally grown rice is sold to the agency.

37.  Sugar traders can also choose to deplete the domestic supply by smuggling sugar out, notably across the Cambodian border, for foreign markets.

38.  The government also imposes an export tax on palm oil and related products as part of its strategy to stabilize the domestic supply.

39.  The government banned the export of CPO, olein and other CPO derivatives last December in order to stabilize the price and ensure the domestic supply of cooking oil.

40.  THE government may issue export-quotas for major agricultural goods to prevent a shortage of domestic supplies and rising inflation as exporters take profits from higher export prices.