Choking off demand in the importing countries has largely lost its allure for many OPEC producers.
All the big importing countries have instituted strict standards, and they are being taken seriously.
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The impact on the output of oil-importing countries also depends on whether oil producers save or spend their windfalls.
It was supposed to be the fuel that could wean, at least partially, America and other petroleum importing countries from their dependence on foreign oil.
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That is closer to the importing countries' own figures.
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On the eve of the conference, the FAO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development issued a joint report that warned that the urban poor in food-importing countries will require increased humanitarian aid to stave off hunger and undernourishment that can also lead to civil strife.
Importing from 55 countries--at least 80% of inventory comes from small shops abroad--is slower than going to a wholesaler.
So, while the Kremlin and Gazprom amass record profits, the real financial loser is consistently shown to be the countries importing Russian gas.
India's annual coffee consumption of about 85 grams per capita is tiny compared with the 4.1 kilograms consumed in the U.S., according the International Coffee Organization, an intergovernmental group of coffee importing and exporting countries.
Importing women from other countries is not a solution on account of the numbers needed.
Confronted with possible drops in domestic cod supply, industry analysts say U.S. consumers will likely look elsewhere, importing more from other countries such as Norway and Canada.
He's importing teachers from other countries to teach their kids.
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Like previous booms, the current one has transferred unimaginable wealth from oil-importing to oil-producing countries, and from consumers to oil companies.
The UK has been cutting emissions at home, but it has been importing more goods from other countries, pushing up CO2 emissions there.
Because of health concerns, some European countries have balked at importing food grown using biotechnology.
By importing savings from abroad, poor countries can invest more than they are able to set aside from their own meagre output.
But such is the labour shortage caused by the oil industry, that about 2, 000 processing jobs are vacant and firms are resorting to importing labour from Portugal and Baltic countries to fill them.
In many nations of the European Union, the chickens are coming home to roost as what has been in some nations a decades-long bid to offset declining birthrates among the native population by importing immigrant laborers transforms the host countries.
Some observers date the rise in religious observance back even further, to the 1980s, when guest workers in Saudi Arabia from across the Muslim world began returning to their own countries, re-importing with them the strict Wahhabi subsect of Islam for which the desert kingdom is known.
Can I just say, we just went through a decade where we were told that it didn't matter, we'll just -- you just keep on importing, buying stuff from other countries, you just take out a home equity loan and max out your credit card, and everything is going to be okay.
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This is because the UK is importing goods that produce CO2 in other countries.
Note how quickly countries switch from exporting to importing labour as they develop.
But the official Climate Change Committee (CCC) last month said that Britain's total contribution towards heating the climate had increased, because the UK is importing goods that produce CO2 in other countries.
Moreover, America has been busy importing, by the tens of millions, families from poor countries who drag the average down.
For rich countries with ageing workforces in particular, gains from importing the young, the energetic and those willing to take risks comfortably outweigh the costs.
IMF, for instance, showed that poor countries which export capital have grown faster than those which rely on importing it from abroad.
Given the mercantilist mindset of trade negotiations, that will only happen if barriers to industrial goods and services are also reduced, especially by big developing countries such as Brazil and India. (The fact that lower tariffs benefit an importing economy is lost on trade negotiators.) In this area, the Geneva deal achieved less.
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Places like China, South Africa and the Pacific rim countries, particularly, will adopt the technology eventually, so we could be faced with the prospect of importing fruit into this country in 10 or 20 years' time.
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