0 (a tropical plant whose leaves produce) strong threads that are used for making rope and floor coverings --
There are a large number of such products: rubber, sugar, sisal, tung, abaca, cotton, pyrethrum and many others.
I am sure that the imports of raw materials, such as cotton, sisal and jute, would not be taxed.
A number of commodities—for example, coffee, tea, cocoa, bananas, natural rubber, jute, sisal and palm oil—are produced largely or exclusively in tropical developing countries.
Several million dollars worth of sisal are held up in the country and might be shipped out.
The position has steadily worsened, and now he would perhaps say that he needs more tons of sisal even to buy just a few parts.
Most of the land allotted to the 11 companies was in extension of existing sisal estates.
Ninety-five per cent of all insect remains were found in faecal samples containing sisal pollen, indicating accidental ingestion due to surface contamination of these flowers by insect visitors.
The empirical results show little evidence of farmers responding in the short run to price increases of crops such as coffee, tea and sisal by expanding the cultivated land area.
