"We know where they are," said Dr. Francine Lord, national manager of import and export for animal health at the food inspection agency in Ottawa.
A big reason for the strong demand is drivers like Joel H. Reisman, the general manager of an importing business in New Hyde Park, N.Y., who pulled up to the station in a Mercury Mountaineer.
Steel stocks surged, after a fund manager was quoted as saying that the Bush administration's elimination of imported steel tariffs was not likely to hurt American companies.
"The Premier League imports players and managers, ever thought of importing referees too?" stomrs Johannes Starke.
The managers were accused of importing illegal immigrants to work at the restaurants.
Sales of imported electronics are brisk.
Prices of imported goods have jumped.
It closed for renovations, hired Jacques Le Magueresse of Cello as manager, and imported a chef, David Féau, from the Michelin two-star Guy Savoy in Paris.
Her mother, who is retired, worked in Manhattan as an assistant manager of the import traffic department of Mitsui & Company, the Japanese industrial and financial conglomerate.
Down the block, Raja Chaani, the manager of India Imports, and two of his employees sit on stools in a sprawling space chock-full of leather jackets, silk scarves and Indian curios -- but devoid of customers.
