India needs lots of fossil fuels, and huge quantities of imported oil.
They often decline, driven down by huge quantities of imported clothing.
It served large quantities of imported hard alcohol, the diplomats noted, "which is against the law".
China's need for ever greater quantities of imported oil is driven by its torrid economic growth.
However, hefty quantities of imported copies of Tangerine Dream's albums were being bought by mail order from Virgin Records, in part because of radio support from the DJ John Peel, who made Atem his Album of the Year for 1973.
The F.D.A., meanwhile, is unable to fully conduct routine inspections of food facilities in the U.S. or abroad, prompting early scares that mass quantities of imported seafood were going uninspected.
Senator Richard J. Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, sent a letter last Thursday to the Agriculture Appropriations Committee warning that "F.D.A.'s resources have not kept pace with its responsibilities, and increasing quantities of imported food products will continue to stress F.D.A.'s capabilities".
In fact, while Israel has good reason to have concerns about the end use of construction materials in Gaza – vast quantities of imported aid were diverted by Hamas to construct miles of terror attack-tunnels – Israel has cooperated fully with the trilateral Gaza reconstruction mechanism (GRM) established by the UN.
The unused brownfields close to northern New Jersey seaports and to Newark Liberty International Airport should be the sites of warehouses and distribution centers that could process the increasing quantities of imported goods entering the greater New York market, a transportation study of the area backed by the federal government has concluded.
Better terms of trade allow a country to export less for any given quantity of imports, or import more for any given quantity of exports.
