Difficulty is experienced in substituting home manufactures for imports, partly because home markets are often too small to support the required industries and partly because the development of manufacturing itself requires extensive imports of machinery and structural materials.
Harassment of privately owned farms and chaotic administration of state-backed agricultural cooperatives hit food production, compelling extensive imports, which stacked up so fast thousands of tons rotted at the ports.
The focus is on pasteurised milk because for other dairy products it is considered that the existence of extensive imports prevents market power being exerted by domestic processors.
The report took issue with what it termed Israel's "extensive" agricultural import restrictions and with taxation, standards and import-licensing procedures that it said generally discriminated against imports.
This extensive importation lasted until 1893, when the US experienced a financial panic, and virtually no Percheron imports occurred between 1894 and 1898.
For example, Costa Rica's recent reduction in deforestation rate appears to have been offset by increasing timber imports from elsewhere [39], and Japan's maintenance of its forest is supported by extensive timber imports from South East Asia and beyond [40].
Because of its degraded lands, poor cultivation practices, and frequent periods of drought, Ethiopia has to rely on extensive food imports.
Although some BBC costume dramas, including the Plantagenet era The White Queen, were mocked for the characters' immaculately white, straightened teeth, historians agree that extensive sugar imports from the New World only came later in the Tudor period – by the end of her life Elizabeth I was reported to have blackened teeth, always omitted from the official portraits.
"Some countries on mainland Europe have more gas storage capacity than the UK but they don't have the benefit of North Sea supply and our extensive range of import infrastructure," the spokeswoman said.
