The region's network of waterways provided the means to export wheat and mining rushes, to import supplies, and to transport passengers.

Many local industrialists rely on credit from international loan agencies, others import essential supplies and the majority import essential equipment.

This allowed blockade runners to import military supplies to the Confederacy with relative ease.

Israel has refused requests by General Ward to allow the Palestinians to import new armored vehicles and fresh supplies of arms.

These vessels also served to import badly needed supplies, especially firearms, and also served to bring mail to and from the Confederacy.

Uganda's economic crisis has crushed expectations of importing adequate medical supplies, let alone antiviral drugs like AZT.

Starved for foreign currency to import crucial supplies, the government now requires all businesses to trade 25 percent of their foreign income at the official exchange rate.

Control of the harbor, among other things, allowed the insurgents to import weapons and supplies.

Many of its best companies are dependent on foreign markets, simultaneously exporting products and importing parts and supplies.

And because Government planners find scarce foreign currency more toothsome than sugar, they are reluctant to part with hard currency to import extra supplies.