Synonym: admit, bring in, effect, implication, importance, introduce, meaning, receive, significance, substance, take in. Antonym: export. Similar words: important, importantly, of importance, impose, contemporary, port, support, report. Meaning: [ɪm'pɔrt /-'pɔːt] n. 1. commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country 2. an imported person brought from a foreign country 3. the message that is intended or expressed or signified 4. a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred 5. having important effects or influence. v. 1. bring in from abroad 2. indicate or signify.
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91. For each individual country in the union however the balance of trade deteriorates on the import side.
92. Too often, he says, we only recognise an opportunity when it arrives back on our doorstep as an import.
93. Import quotas may rise from the present ceiling of 18.5 million to 20 million.
94. Trade An important policy issue concerns the effectiveness of import controls as an instrument for alleviating Britain's economic decline.
95. By eliminating import taxes, or tariffs, and other import restrictions at national borders.
96. Other import duties fell on sugar, tobacco, timber, silk, iron bars and, in some years, grain.
97. The report claims that this would be more effective than resorting to timber import restrictions and the imposition of logging bans.
98. The combination of low export prices and high oil import prices means Mr Kufuor's government will have little room to manoeuvre.
99. For example, the enactment of import quotas, designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
100. The problems this has given rise to are compounded when one examines our import record.
101. Offered rates of negotiable, bankbacked business credit instruments typically financing an import order.
102. Sales soared on low interest rates and declining import tariffs.
103. In addition to inadequate protection of intellectual property rights these included a range of import tariffs, import licensing and customs practices.
104. Again, these can be used to assess potential export demand or continuity of import supplies.
105. It will also import and export a good range of standard formats.
106. Of classical style this piece was certainly an import and it reveals the high quality of the Roman art form.
107. That's where the Arabs prohibited the import of jasmine because the scent depresses the men and excites the women.
108. Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973.
109. Import duties, freight charges, local taxes, agency commission, were all built into the selling price.
110. For example,[sentencedict.com] rising import prices and the rising costs of the world's resources.
111. Insulation from external inflation With fixed exchange rates, inflation abroad is transmitted directly into higher import prices.
112. An interesting and ambitious solution to the oil import bill problem is to substitute synthetic petrol made from natural gas.
113. High import taxes give their goods an artificial advantage in the market.
114. To pay for the outlay the federal government would increase customs and import duties.
115. But it is illegal to import it, send it through the post or display it to the general public.
116. Saitoti announced measures to promote exports, including a reform of the import tariff system to assist imports of manufacturing inputs.
117. Because import substitution rested on capital-intensive enterprises which required little labour and, therefore, did little to stimulate demand; 3.
118. There is one way, and only one way, in which a country can import more than it exports.
119. Details of any import restrictions or payment restrictions imposed by the government of the foreign country.
120. Low inflation in industrialized countries restrained increases in import prices, resulting in a general improvement in the terms of trade.
More similar words: important, importantly, of importance, impose, contemporary, port, support, report, export, airport, portion, portray, reporter, report on, portrait, supporter, portfolio, reporting, supportive, transport, in support of, proportion, reportedly, opportunity, transportation, in proportion to, active transport, jump off, compose, compound.