At a national level, especially food importing countries (those with a negative food trade balance, are affected by the changing prices.

So if importing countries were upset with Israel they could easily punish it by buying someone else's oranges.

The consumers of agricultural products in net importing countries finance this benefit.

The 90's look less kind to importing countries.

"It's against the interests of not only the exporters but also the consumers of importing countries."

Between them, the two countries probably have 60 million barrels or more situated near importing countries, experts say.

Secondary reasons include the restrictive rules and regulations on beef of importing countries.

But eventually, all importing countries would feel the disruption, as the Europeans turned to other sources.

And it hardly seems wise to provoke them to try for a higher price if importing countries can find producer-friendlier ways to meet policy objectives.

But in order to assist importing countries we felt it was a necessary complement to the licensing mechanism.