The government can no longer afford to import food from outside their own country.
They became more centered on trade in order to be able to import food.
One is feeding them, and in fact we must import food to the island every two weeks.
Unable to import food, the Government asked for foreign aid.
However, Algeria will need to import food for many years to come.
"He didn't even have enough money to import food, and we felt Congress would not be sympathetic to any large foreign aid bill."
The agricultural sector is small, with most food being imported.
We'll just keep on importing food & gas from abroad as always.
The government had to use scarce foreign currency to import food.
We have no cash left to import food or medicine.