In effect, the U.S. can import food or it can import the workers who pick it.

实际上，美国可以进口食物，也可以引进负责其采摘的工人。

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It is profitable to import food.

进口食品可赚钱。

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A former food exporter, Zaire have to import food now.

扎伊尔过去是个粮食出口国，现在却要进口粮食。

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"Why should we be encouraged to lease large tracts of land for bio fuel production that we are not eating to make money and use that money to import food?" Ghana's Agriculture Ministry says private sector farmers are free to do what they like with their land.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

And when this happens,sir, the U.S.will be importing food, only there won't be any place from where to import it."

VOA: special.2009.11.10

And when this happens, the U.S.will be importing food, only there won't be any place from where to import it."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Countries that import food (many of them poor) benefit from the largesse of rich-world subsidies, but agricultural exporters suffer.

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Cuba must import food yet again, because farm reform has been half-hearted.

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Capriles said he will reverse land expropriations, which he says have ruined many farms and forced Venezuela to import food after previously being a net exporter of beef, rice, coffee and other foods.

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