Assuming that domestic demand does not collapse completely as the economy slows, Mr Dupont reckons America needs to import at least 20m tonnes to offset constraints in its own production capacity.
At the very first step, users need to prepare data to import to system.
The US, Britain and Germany want any expanded sanctions to squeeze Iran's vital oil sector because the country needs to import up to 40 per cent of its gasoline needs.
Agriculture Minister Joseph Made last week predicted a bumper grain harvest of three million tons next April, but United Nations experts say the country needs to import up to 1.5 million tons of grain to avert famine.
With Japanese birthrates falling below replacement levels, the United Nations has estimated that Japan needs to import 600,000 workers a year to maintain its standard of living.
Many politicians agree that Italy, with one of the lowest birthrates in the industrialized world and one of the largest retirement age populations, needs to import workers, skilled and unskilled, to keep its economy going.
Many New Orleanians — both black and white, but all of them working for a living — have complained to me that their fellow-residents "need to get off their asses," and that, much as they appreciate the sentiment behind out-of-towners coming to help, they are embarrassed that New Orleans needs to import people willing to do manual labor.
Russia needs to import 4m tonnes of sugar, after its poorest beet harvest for 30 years.
They wonder aloud why Venezuela, with thousands of unemployed professionals, needs to import foreigners.
