"Adding another really big, important, protected area to the world's pathetically small list of big, imported protected areas that's a big thing".
It already has surpassed "The Da Vinci Code," the first in the movie franchise, which earned the title of biggest imported film in 2006 at $15.8 million.
And although oil prices are high, gas prices have slumped following the opening earlier in the year of a big import pipeline from Norway.Despite these difficulties the government wants Britain still to be pumping 3m barrels of oil and gas a day by 2010.
"That's one of our big imports, is a good period drama," said Oyelowo, who was born in Oxford, England to Nigerian parents.
Most of the big imports in the US since the early 1990s, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (still the No 1 foreign-language film) to The Orphanage to The Lives of Others ticked most of those boxes.
Hopes of big Chinese imports have faded after a record crop.
Behind the move to phase out sugar cane cutters are tales of exploitation that have damaged the image of Brazilian biofuels in big importing countries such as Sweden and potentially in Britain, where the government has mandated that 2.5% of all petrol come from biofuels.
"The U.S. situation is fragile: The stock market feels good, the short-run outlook is reasonably good, but it is fragile in that it depends on consistent and big imports of foreign capital," Volcker says.
The IMF claims it will be nearer 4%, and blames recent problems on the high price of fuel and the low price of cocoa, Ghana's biggest import and export, respectively.The government has not cut its spending or raised fuel prices as much as it might have done because this is election year.
Last Friday's temporary closure of the UK-Belgian Interconnector, one of the country's biggest import pipelines, pushed prices to an all-time high and sparked fears the nation could run out of gas.
