Example sentences for: imports

How can you use “imports” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • USA Today leads with the Clinton administration's proposal for establishing a nationwide computer system for rapidly tracking the course of infectious diseases like the flu and hepatitis C. The New York Times lead also connects medicine and cyberspace with a report that the rise of Americans' online pharmaceutical purchases via foreign-based Web sites has led to record levels of illegal drug imports, judging from the latest figures on Customs Service seizures of imported drugs in 1999, which ran about 4.5 times higher than 1998.

  • Low-cost labor overseas and the increasing penetration of imports have certainly undercut American apparel manufacturers; apparel imports grew rapidly in most categories starting in the mid-1970s.

  • But with imports now priced out of the market, domestic production is on the rise in some industries and Russia's trade surplus is up twenty-fold from the beginning of last year.

  • He wants the United States to adopt an "emergency tariff" of between 10 percent and 15 percent on imports to force other countries to abandon their mercantile trading strategies.

  • The Port of New York offered a critical test because, given the diversity of imports and the volume of work, if problems were occurring, they would be likely to show up clearly in this site.


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