Sentence examples for refusal to import from inspiring English sources

IN PROTEST at France's refusal to import British beef, a few plucky Britons are making a stand.

And Washington is mumbling about launching a WTO complaint over Europe's refusal to import genetically modified crops.

A spokesman for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said the European refusal to import genetically modified American foods might prompt a campaign against French wines and bottled waters.

Britain urged the European Commission to fine France for its continuing refusal to import British beef products despite the lifting in August 1999 of a European ban imposed in March 1996 because of an outbreak of mad cow disease.

He also told listeners that he preferred not to play music by artists from Vietnam because of the country's refusal to import music recorded by Vietnamese Americans.

Examples of negative sanctions include the following: refusing to export (embargoes), refusing to import (boycotts), covert refusals to trade (blacklists), purchases intended to keep goods out of the hands of target countries (preclusive buying), deprivation of ownership (expropriation), punitive taxation, aid suspensions, and asset freezes.

They include an American ban on French luxury foods, to protest French unwillingness to import hormone-treated American beef, and a refusal by France to buy genetically modified American crops.

It would enable nuclear-armed India to import nuclear fuel and technology for civilian uses despite its refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

When the Consumers Associationn tried earlier this year to import several popular models from the Netherlands it met with repeated refusals from European dealers.

It had to import it.

"EUROPE needs to import to export".