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import

[im-pawrt, -pohrt, im-pawrt, -pohrt] / ɪmˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˈɪm pɔrt, -poʊrt /




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Logistics companies such as United Parcel Service, FedEx, DHL Group and Flexport have rolled out more AI in their customs brokerage operations to speed up the import entry process.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

In an opinion handed down Wednesday, the justice once again refused to import SCOTUS’s “results-driven approach to due process” into state law.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

Petroleum import prices ticked down 0.7%, offering some relief after the war in Iran drove crude-oil prices sharply higher earlier this year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Even so, it is the act of assembling disparate icons and references into resonant wholes that affords Saar’s sculptures and tableaux their personal and political import.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

What is agreed upon is that Lawrence understood almost immediately the import of what he had seen, even though Wideroe’s report was written in dense technical German, a language that was largely beyond Ernest’s ken.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Washington is also continuing to push for more goods to be manufactured domestically, even as US reliance on imports from Mexico, Taiwan, and China to fuel its AI boom grows.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Egypt imports around 40 percent of its raw plastic materials, mainly from Gulf countries, Europe, China and South Korea, according to the Chamber of Chemical Industries.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Brazil consistently imports more from the U.S. than it exports.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

U.S. import prices unexpectedly ticked up in June from May, driven by nonfuel imports, while petroleum imports finally pulled back, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

“All those midsized European nations and their capital cities, imports and exports and what have you! I could hardly keep them straight.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

They apply to about $20 billion in goods, just 5 percent of what the U.S. imported from Canada last year.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

The body scrub areas and dry saunas feature Japanese Hinoki wood also imported from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

"We saw a significant increase in orders, particularly from food and beverage manufacturers, because we offered a more readily available alternative to imported materials," she told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

It imported just 5.7 million barrels a day in June, according to the International Energy Agency’s July oil market report, down from around 11 million barrels a day before the Iran war.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

I was envisioning one particular spot on the floor, a pile of imported Tunisian pillows, perfect to curl up in and e-mail friends.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

Eugene Kim designed the interior of the spa, importing nearly all the materials and most of the furniture from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Without Russian diesel, importing countries have turned in large part to U.S. diesel, which has helped push U.S. domestic prices higher, Mills said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Extracting a tonne of coal now costs nearly twice as much as importing it, and domestic production no longer fully covers the country's needs.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

"For anybody importing goods the scenario changes completely in terms of the paperwork that one is going to have to present to get the goods in," he says.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Within two years after this insect was accidentally introduced from Europe in 1917, the United States Government had mounted one of its most intensive programs for locating and importing parasites of an insect pest.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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