Imports for March totaled $117.4 billion, up 21.9 percent from the corresponding month a year earlier.

Manufactured imports totaled $30.4 billion, up $400 million from December.

In 2005, imports totaled $1.2 billion, more than double the amount only two years before, according to official statistics.

Imports in these cases totaled $314.5 million last year.

Imports in May totaled $4.23 billion, up 16.6 percent from $3.63 billion a year earlier.

Imports totaled $17.15 billion, up from $14.71 billion in April 1989.

Imports totaled US $35 billion, an increase of 17 percent compared to the previous year.

For all of 1993, American exports were $464.77 billion and imports totaled $580.54 billion.

Imports totaled $20.98 billion, up from $18.99 billion a year earlier, the ministry said.

Imports totaled $23.42 billion in November, compared with $18.55 billion a year earlier, an increase of 26.3 percent.