"halt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is also a so-called safeguard provision, under which each country would have the right to halt imports that flooded its markets.
- Canada has halted imports until it can decide whether the work violates laws banning the dissemination of hate literature.
- Venezuela halted imports of Colombian cars and banned a Colombian energy firm from Venezuela's oil-rich Orinoco region.
- After Fidel Castro took power in 1959, the United States imposed its economic embargo on the Communist island, halting imports of American consumer goods.
- The Agriculture Ministry halted imports of American poultry on March 10, citing concerns over the use of chemicals and antibiotics by farmers.
- China has virtually halted imports of special materials and is confining its purchases to run-of-the-mill commodities.
- The Federal Centers for Disease Control has halted imports by three of the nation's largest monkey dealers because of concerns about a spreading virus.
- The ban replaces a Bush Administration measure that halted imports of assault-style semiautomatics.
- Greenpeace has called on the Mexican government to halt imports of genetically modified corn, but the genie is already out of the bottle.
- Other countries halted or slowed imports from the affected nations.
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