Soviet officials have estimated they need to import about $14.7 billion in food products to meet that nation's needs over the next year.

Because so much of the country is desert, Libya has to import about 75% of its food.

This year it will import about 45 percent of its oil, compared with 30 percent in 1984.

Once self-sufficient, Algeria was by 1990 importing about 75 percent of its food.

It imported about 3.8 million tons of grain in 1998.

In 1991 Armenia imported about 65 percent of its food.

The United States imported about 49% of the petroleum we consumed during 2010.

We import about half of our oil at a cost of approximately $55 billion a year.

Previously, Japanese companies set the same goal for 1994, but did not get even halfway to it, importing about $2.5 billion in parts.

We import about 50% or 45% of what we need, and this dependence is likely to increase.