The inefficient agricultural industry in Cuba has led to the need to import large amounts of foods.

And the result is that this country suddenly has to import much larger amounts of copper.

A destructive drought in 1958 forced Korea to import large amounts of food grains.

In reality, North Korea has become the anti-juche society, importing vast amounts of its oil and food.

By 1989 Uganda imported large amounts of sugar, despite local industrial capacity that could easily satisfy domestic demand.

But population grew so fast that its agricultural output is now going down and it is importing huge amounts of food.

The United States, with its enormous trade and budget deficits, is now a debtor nation importing huge amounts of capital.

Even in a good harvest year, the Soviets might import large amounts of grain, if only as food for livestock.

The European Union will continue to import large amounts of primary energies.

The island had to import significant amounts of rice and other crops to compensate for the losses from other countries.

American merchandise exports to the region totaled $6.7 billion in 1998 while imports from Africa amounted to $13.4 billion.

In the early 1990's the nation's imports and exports amounted to a total of more than 885 billion dollars annually.

July was only the fourth month in which imports amounted to more than half of deliveries, according to the institute, a trade organization based in Washington.

Total imports of forest products in 2000 amounted to $10.3 million.

The total imports of all kinds of ethanol amounted to slightly more than 10 percent of American consumption last year.

Exports totaled $16 billion in all of 1986 and imports amounted to $11.9 billion.

And Western Europe's imports from the region amounted to 27 percent of its total imports, or about 3.2 million barrels a day.

On that date the total annual import to SA amounted to £35 million.

Tahiti suffers from a severe imbalance in trade, with imports amounting to nearly ten times its exports.

For all of last year, imports amounted to just 3.6 percent of supply.