Imports in example sentence

The gulf between GDP and domestic demand can be explained largely by a collapse in imports, which were 15% lower in the second quarter of 2015 than they were in the final quarter of 2007, owing to declining living standards, mass unemployment, and depressed investment.

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Let's take food imports.

So we've worked with others, with other businesses and NGOs, on the Better Cotton Initiative, working right back down to the farm, and there you can halve the amount of water and halve the chemical inputs, the yields increase, and 60 percent of the costs of running many of these farms with farmers with low incomes can be chemical imports.

Well, to level the playing field and protect the competitiveness of its industries, Country A would tax imports from Country B based on their carbon content.

I simply want to use them as an example of countries and citizens who have been affected, negatively affected, by a trade policy that restricts imports and protects local industries.

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