For decades, Iran had used its oil wealth to import goods, instead of manufacturing them domestically.
Legislation introduced this month in the U.S. Senate would make it illegal to import goods produced in sweatshops.
Casting around for a part-time work option, she learned about a course for people who wanted to import goods from Ecuador.
We see an America where we invest in homegrown innovation and ingenuity so we can export jobs, not just import goods.
The tunnels are the only way to import goods into the territory.
Countries import goods, that they cannot produce themselves or cannot make efficiently, and export goods that other countries want.
This same basic economic argument can be applied to trade: why import goods from abroad when we could get them from American businesses?
Agricultural exports that used to be the engine of the economy have shriveled, and foreign currency to import goods is hard to come by.
Revisions to the National Seeds Policy in 1991, he says, allowed Kumar to import goods for agricultural use -- and go into its new line.
As the Chinese middle class continues to grow, China will import more goods and services from abroad.
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We continue to import more goods and services than we export, and that gap increased in the 1st quarter.
Angola's central bank ensures an overvalued kwanza (says the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation), which helps traders import those goods.
It is also restricting the import of goods, such as fizzy drinks, which it has learnt to manufacture under the siege.
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"You have to apply for permission to import any goods, " he said.
Although Israel lifted most restrictions on the import of goods into Gaza following the flotilla incident, restrictions on some construction materials and most exports remain in effect.
The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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The fundamental problem is the trade imbalance and what we can expect as an exportable service to balance against the net import of manufactured goods.
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The Indian currency, the rupee, was inconvertible and high tariffs and import licensing prevented foreign goods reaching the market.
Both need large financial backing up front to import and export the goods.
On September 4th the government announced a year-long rise in import tariffs on 100 goods, ranging from tyres to medicines, to protect Brazilian manufacturers.
During the 2008 to 2009 credit crisis, Russia raised import tariffs on numerous manufactured goods.
Kosovo is retaliating by banning the import of Serbian and Bosnian goods from January 1st.
However, large states like Uttar Pradesh that "import" substantial quantities of goods from other states are apprehensive about revenues being adversely affected.
The mismanagement of Venezuela's petrodollar bounty has helped fuel inflation, expected to exceed 30% this year, and led to a shortage of basic goods in the import-dependent country.
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China is a prominent export-processing economy, which means that its factories import lots of raw materials and intermediate goods to stoke the machines and processes that manufacture and assemble the finished goods it exports to the United States and elsewhere.
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China recently began to import some African-manufactured value-added goods, such as processed foods and household consumer goods.
Last week the Americans expanded the list of goods that poor African countries can import duty-free to the United States.
U.S. economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claims report, import and export prices, international trade in goods and services, and the weekly DOE energy stocks report.
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Under rules of the World Trade Organization, a country can apply anti-dumping import tariffs when it can prove that imported goods were sold at below-market prices and caused damage to domestic industry.
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They are usually about explicitly protectionist measures, such as import tariffs or quotas, that keep out foreign goods at the border.
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