The Bush administration opposed relaxation of import rules, saying it could expose consumers to unsafe, counterfeit or contaminated drugs.
He agreed to separate from the trade negotiations a side accord liberalizing Chinese import rules for American wheat and citrus fruit.
According to Greenpeace large amounts of ipil timber sourced from illegal logging is being imported into China where there are lax import rules.
Consignments that do not meet a country's import rules could be refused entry, returned or destroyed.
Over the last several decades, Hollywood has devised its own informal set of import rules.
They were decided in Chiquita's favor, but the Europeans delayed amending the import rules.
The July 2008 negotiations broke down after failing to reach a compromise on agricultural import rules.
One method of keeping down consumption is to have strict import rules.
What we need, however, are import rules.
So the import rules were eased.