The court ordered the Indian company to get its imports cleared by Ericsson as well as federal customs officials.
And the Arabs, who depend heavily on grain imports, get themselves worked up.
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They get upset when America imports more than it exports.
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It would be international sanctions, we would not get the same kind of imports that we would need.
And while we get most of our oil imports from friends that dependence still negatively impacts our balance of trade.
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In that case, U.S. consumers would be paying more for the Chinese imports and likely get no U.S. products as alternatives.
The reason is that we add categories of spending to get to GDP, but we subtract imports.
But ranting about the iniquities of exports is very strange indeed: especially when you and Lou are more normally ranting about the iniquities of imports, which is how we get to do exactly the same to all those foreigners.
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They will also get special treatment when it comes to visas and imports.
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Imports are the sweat and labour of foreigners that we get to enjoy ourselves.
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Oil prices may climb again, but the euro area weathered the recent spike fairly well and should get back a good slice of any extra it spends on energy imports.
They will get lower prices for their exports and have to pay more for their imports of raw materials.
And the other is, the countries that did get exemptions, do they also get some kind of a warning or another inducement to further limit their imports?
Hollywood studios are aggressively pushing for partnerships in China to get around a strict quota on imported films, and rules that bar imports from taking home more than 25% of sales.
Poland and Russia get on better now than for a long time, with Russia dropping a ban on Polish meat imports and Poland unblocking EU-Russia talks on co-operation.
We import things we want that we can get more affordably than when producing them at home, and export things in order to pay for those imports.
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But while U.S. trade to China is increasing as China consumers get richer, and their currency gets stronger, it is miniscule in comparison to what the U.S imports from there.
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