Intel and some smaller importers were told that circuit boards had been improperly labeled as tariff-free parts.

The company started as a small importer in 1957.

It most directly affects small importers, wine consultants like Mr. Green and wine writers.

"I used to be able to find it in New York, when there were a lot of small importers on 11th and 12th Streets," he said.

The trade mark Gurgel expired, and has been bought from another business, now used by a small Brazilian importer of tricycles.

It's some small importers that tarnish the industry.

The smaller importers generally trumpet their products' value and hope the decline of conspicuous consumption will make their products right for the times.

It is that smaller importers will be put at an even greater competitive disadvantage.

To achieve this aim involved driving out the small importers.

A law that would ease restrictions on small importers is now before Parliament and, for the moment, foreign goods are less available here than in Poland.