The international community needed dollars to finance imports from the United States to rebuild what was lost in the war.

The other 20 percent is used as loans for development projects, or to finance imports from Venezuela and Mexico.

Historically, the country's economic performance has been tied to exports, which provide hard currency to finance imports and external debt payments.

Russia alone is seeking about $6 billion for a fund to stabilize the ruble and $12 billion to help it finance crucial imports.

In addition, Iraq has rejected the Security Council's offer to let it sell some oil to finance imports of food and medicine.

One recent law enabled business executives to finance imports with money held abroad.

Sales were helped by financing incentives, imports and purchases spurred by tax law changes.

MTB generally makes loans of $500,000 to $2.5 million to finance imports and exports.

In the long run, China reduced the expenditure of foreign exchange needed to finance agricultural imports.

Nobody could finance increased imports of these commodities to provide competition for these producers on the domestic market.