They imported tobacco, sugar and cotton as raw materials for their factories.

Earlier this year, for example, it had to import sugar, after shortages led prices to double and sparked protests among consumers.

But the big growth in candy making came in the 14th century, when Venetians began importing sugar to sweeten their confections.

This business lasted at least 50 years, records show at that time they were importing tea and sugar from London.

It sought special permission to import lower-cost foreign sugar and use it to make candy sold in the United States.

Sugar futures had moved lower earlier in a bearish reaction to reports that the Soviet Union would import less sugar this year than expected.

He believes that if Indonesia made the most of its sugar palms, then in two years there would be no need to import sugar any more.

It was thanks to him that Russia stopped importing sugar from abroad.

When I first got down here, bootleggers were importing sugar by the boxcar.

It was a present for the big sugar concerns, which moved their production out of Europe, and today we import sugar from them.