exportation
- n commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country
- n the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country
- It was agreed that, because international trade would not be greatly affected, Czechoslovakia may permanently reserve the right to prohibit or restrict the exportation of quartzite .
- On the calendar are four cases of national importance: Suit of Ohio and Pennsylvania to prevent West Virginia from restricting exportation of her natural resources.
- In 1777, Thomas Jefferson, while serving in the Virginia legislature, began drafting a plan for the gradual emancipation and exportation of the slaves.