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• n  commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
• n  an imported person brought from a foreign country
  the lead role was played by an import from Sweden
  they are descendants of indentured importees
• n  the message that is intended or expressed or signified
  the import of his announcement was ambiguous
• n  a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
• n  having important effects or influence
• v  bring in from abroad
• v  transfer (electronic data) into a database or document
• v  indicate or signify

• While the agricultural exports of America are receiving a great deal of attention, our agricultural imports are rarely if ever mentioned.
• Its oil import costs hit $1.
• Premier Thorvald Stauning, a strapping Social Democrat with a beard as big as Santa Claus's has been asking and fighting for iron control of Danish imports by the State.

• importation
• importee
• meaning
• significance
• signification
• implication
• consequence
• moment
• spell

• export
• inconsequence

News & Articles

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• Research and Markets: India Trade of Tetrahydrofuran: Import, Export, Market Prospects
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "India Trade of Tetrahydrofuran: Import, Export, Market Pr
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Research and Markets: Kazakhstan Trade of Fungicides: Import, Export, Market Prospects
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Kazakhstan Trade of Fungicides: Import, Export, Market
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Report: Import Volume at US Retail Ports to Remain Weak
  Major U.S. retail container ports are expected to see a 1.1 percent year-over-year increase in import volume in June, reflecting “modest growth expectations” as retailers head the back-to-school and holiday seasons, according to the latest monthly Global Port Tracker report, released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
  June 10, 2013 - Journal of Commerce Online

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in MarketWatch
  Bernanke, addressing international bankers in Barcelona via satellite, said that Fed policy is a factor in keeping the dollar strong and that a weak greenback has brought "an unwelcome rise in import prices and consumer-price inflation."
• Jack Cafferty in International Herald Tribune
  We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart,Cafferty said,...
• Wen Jiabao in guardian.co.uk
  We want to make sure that our products and our food will not only meet the domestic and international standards, but also meet the specific requirements of the import countries,Wen said at an event organized by American organizations.