Take China: in 1984 it imported $300 million worth of components to make 120,000 computers.

Last year we imported £13.7 billion worth of goods from the US.

Last year, Brazil imported $3.4 billion worth of oil.

Syria, however, still imported LS287 million worth of sugar in 1984.

The industry, which he said normally imported $400 million worth of materials a year, had not received any dollars for six weeks.

In the mid-1830s, Texas imported approximately $630,000 worth of goods.

The nation imported $1.7 billion worth of shrimp that year, up from $719 million in 1980.

Germany imported more than $50 million worth of eels in 2002.

In 2004 the country imported US$1.6 billion worth of gasoline.

Japan imported $1.4 billion worth of American beef in 2003 before the ban was imposed.