The market is glutted with cheap imports.

Tom's company imports coffee from Brazil.

This translated into exports persistently higher than imports.

Without protection, African farmers would once again be harmed by imports.

(e) The need for diamond processing, exporting and importing States to act in concert

A balance of energy imports and exports is only a first approximation of independence. As I argue in my book The Future of Power, global interdependence involves both sensitivity and vulnerability.

A balance of energy imports and exports is only a first approximation of independence.

Until 1998, the ruble was overvalued, making it impossible for domestic producers to compete with imports.

Resources released by these imports fostered the growth of industries that satisfy new needs.

But modernization stalled when protectionist pressures from Lancashire and the exigencies of Imperial finance led the British to abandon free trade and laissez faire .

Mexico tried to solve the problem by imposing a state administered price ceiling for maize tortillas, combined with duty free maize imports.

Born in Ashiya, an affluent suburb of Kobe in western Japan, Koike's father ran a company that traded and imported oil and petroleum.

The climax was reached on February 25, when the central bank introduced import controls and raised interest rates to 30 .

Differences between the figures for consumption and for proportion met by internal production and imports are due to variations in stocks.

The US alone imports 1.5 million barrels a day from West Africa, the same amount it imports from Saudi Arabia.

The stronger dollar not only lowers the cost of imports, but also puts downward pressure on the prices of domestic products that compete with imports.

Consider Germany, which in 2006 exported capital worth 108 billion, only 25 billion of which was for direct investments, whereas net domestic investment in all sectors combined was only 75 billion. Part of this capital export flowed to the new EU members in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed, relative to their size, gigantic capital imports.

The shared steel initiative of 1952 could find its parallel in a German Polish initiative to jointly manage natural gas imports.

Like guest workers, outsourcing imports labor services, but the foreign workers stay in their own backyards.

Part of this capital export flowed to the new EU members in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed, relative to their size, gigantic capital imports.

That, in turn, may cause higher investment or asset bubbles, as businesses seek to reinvest their savings somewhere. And lagging household income clearly contributes to China s trade surplus, because low domestic consumption tends to keep exports higher than imports.

And lagging household income clearly contributes to China s trade surplus, because low domestic consumption tends to keep exports higher than imports.

A balance of energy imports and exports does not produce pure independence, but it does alter the power relations involved in energy interdependence.

It is in a country s interest to lower its import barriers so that it has cheaper access to goods and services that it cannot produce competitively.

Today it is a large and sprawling enterprise, that controls its own intelligence agency, manufacturing base, and import export companies, much like the Russian FSB or the Chinese military.

According to the founder and co owner of the LavkaLavka project, Boris Akimov, right now, one can talk more about the substitution of imports from Europe and America with imports from China, Israel and Latin America.

The European Commission estimates that within 20 or 30 years, 70 percent of the energy needs of the European Union will have to be met by imports compared to the current share of 50 percent.

For instance, if I save 100, but at the same time I invest 100 in my factories fixed assets, I am balanced domestically and not running an export surplus with anyone.

The decline has so far been masked in the developed world by seafood products that were not previously available, such as farmed salmon, and by massive fish imports from developing countries.

British policy turned India into a pioneer of Third World industrialization, with an economy increasingly based on domestic capital and entrepreneurship combined with imported technology.

Even oil production in the United States has not matched the increase in oil prices, as rising import costs for tools and equipment partly a reflection of the dollar s weakness and other factors have forced project delays and cancellations.

Although a strengthening and overhaul of customs law as well as more diligence on control of such imports will prove useful. It is of utmost importance that local communities get involved in keeping our country clean of such products.