I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an export/import ban
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The export ban on live cattle was brought in some years ago.
an import/export business
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Kingwell had an export business in New Zealand.
an import/export licence
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An export licence was issued in August last year.
import goods
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Western Europe is the world’s second largest market for imported goods.
import/export quotas
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British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by higher tariffs and import quotas.
import/export restrictions (= trade restrictions )
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Import restrictions on manufactured goods have been lifted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cheap
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The final blow for many firms was the government's abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.
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Farmers wary of increased competition from cheap imports also urged a ban.
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Other leading drug wholesalers in Britain also surreptitiously buy cheap imports using specially-established subsidiary companies.
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Without it, the gain is smaller and confined to the consumption benefit of cheaper imports .
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Will commercial vehicle operators buy long-lasting, reliable but expensive quality tyres, or cheap , short-life imports and re-moulds?
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It means cheaper imports , more pesetas for the pound, a stronger feelgood factor.
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Objective: to reduce costs, stay competitive, and beat off the threat from cheap foreign imports .
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The developing countries are pressed to eliminate trade barriers, which can lead to local producers being undermined by cheaper imports .
foreign
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And what if Clinton should press ahead with proposed measures to penalise foreign imports ?
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Nor did this luxury stimulate local production: it was wasted on foreign imports which could never become productive at home.
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Since 1991, however, officials have begun gradually opening up the economy to foreign imports and investment.
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The sugar program provides loans to growers of 18 cents per pound for raw cane sugar production and limits foreign imports .
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Objective: to reduce costs, stay competitive, and beat off the threat from cheap foreign imports .
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The initial idea of making vases out of solid stone was probably a foreign import .
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It can prove that it has secured additional revenue sources, while protecting our screens from unwelcome foreign imports .
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Farmers mutter about cheap foreign imports bringing in the disease and the closure of local abattoirs allowing it to spread so quickly.
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ban
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The number of individual countries with hazardous waste import bans is now over one hundred.
control
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Severe import controls were introduced and were one of the factors explaining the slump in industrial production in 1973.
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The Authority's proposals had involved the imposition of import controls and production quotas.
duty
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The final blow for many firms was the government's abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.
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At the time, the country hiked import duties , imposed exchange-rate controls and nationalized the banks.
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Business is also booming in the Far East, though Hong Kong suffered from higher costs and increased import duties .
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In addition, import duties were levied on wines.
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Other import duties fell on sugar, tobacco, timber, silk, iron bars and, in some years, grain.
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Part of the reason for this recovery has been the reduction of import duties on foreign paper.
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But a family planning a wedding reception would be able to claim exemption from import duty .
food
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Most food imports went to comparatively few countries.
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It was not only food imports that were to be substituted in Franco's plan.
oil
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This was sufficiently pronounced to offset the drop in the oil import bill following the recent price collapse.
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Its growth however has been constantly threatened by the size of the oil import bill.
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An interesting and ambitious solution to the oil import bill problem is to substitute synthetic petrol made from natural gas.
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The combination of low export prices and high oil import prices means Mr Kufuor's government will have little room to manoeuvre.
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These macro-economic effects depend not so much on volume as on the weight of oil imports in total trade.
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Taxes on cigarettes, or alcohol, or even oil imports have been proposed.
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In 1971 price controls on domestic production were imposed and the legislation limiting imports was repealed. Oil imports soared in 1972.
price
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And that's at import prices .
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As a result, import prices rise relatively little even when the dollar plunges.
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The combination of low export prices and high oil import prices means Mr Kufuor's government will have little room to manoeuvre.
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Insulation from external inflation With fixed exchange rates, inflation abroad is transmitted directly into higher import prices .
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Low inflation in industrialized countries restrained increases in import prices , resulting in a general improvement in the terms of trade.
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For example, rising import prices and the rising costs of the world's resources.
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Consider these in turn. 1 Rising import prices .
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And the resulting higher import prices will put upward pressure on inflation.
quota
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For example, the enactment of import quotas , designed to compensate particular industrial supporters, may impose substantial additional costs.
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Conversely, suppose the United States was to solve its trade imbalance by imposing import quotas .
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Note also that with both the import quotas , the increase in the domestic firms' profits was substantial.
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Most important for our day is the almost universal support among economists for free trade and opposition to tariffs and import quotas .
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I was looking for a 4 × 4 vehicle and either building could have housed this year's import quota .
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The higher import quota also means greater volume and higher profit margins for other refiners like Alexander&038;.
restriction
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The emergency import restriction on cultural artifacts from El Salvador has been extended for another three years.
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However, with semen import restrictions off and markets opened up, that has changed with a vengeance.
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Details of any import restrictions or payment restrictions imposed by the government of the foreign country.
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This will produce more pressure in the west for import restrictions .
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The report claims that this would be more effective than resorting to timber import restrictions and the imposition of logging bans.
substitution
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Because import substitution rested on capital-intensive enterprises which required little labour and, therefore, did little to stimulate demand; 3.
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He argued that the road to development should be built with import substitution and quasi-socialism.
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Unfortunately, quasi-socialistic import substitution did not work anywhere it was tried.
tariff
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On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
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Sales soared on low interest rates and declining import tariffs .
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Saitoti announced measures to promote exports, including a reform of the import tariff system to assist imports of manufacturing inputs.
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In addition to inadequate protection of intellectual property rights these included a range of import tariffs , import licensing and customs practices.
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The centrepiece of the package involved cuts in average import tariffs from 15 percent to 5 percent by 1996.
tax
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In 1991 Côte d'Ivoire slapped an import tax on frozen beef.
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By eliminating import taxes , or tariffs, and other import restrictions at national borders.
■ VERB
restrict
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On Sept. 14 regulations restricting imports and exports had been lifted, except for certain products subject to quotas or special licences.
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They accused Clinton of using moralistic language to cloak protectionist policies aimed at restricting imports from Third World countries.
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Rangoon reacted to the charges by organising a vehement press campaign and restricting imports from its neighbour.
rise
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Import prices rise and since imports are a large fraction of consumption, the consumer price index rises right along with imports.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a matter of little import
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California small-car buyers tend to buy imports.
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Oil imports have risen recently.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By contrast, both imports and exports are expected to grow at a similar rate.
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Of classical style this piece was certainly an import and it reveals the high quality of the Roman art form.
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Oil exporters, as noted, had to cut their imports and thus, perhaps, aggravated the world recession.
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Similarly, a change in taxation and autonomous changes in consumption, savings and imports will also affect national income.
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Similarly, archaeologists can use exports and imports of objects to extend chronological linkages by means of cross-dating.
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Under such conditions, what one group considers of value and of import may not necessarily have similar meaning for the others.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
illegally
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Senor Gomorro was fined 350 pounds and told that illegally importing an animal is a serious offence.
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W was convicted of conspiracy to illegally import a controlled drug.
■ NOUN
car
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Now the tax on importing used cars has been slashed.
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Domestically produced cars are overpriced while prices for imported cars verge on the absurd.
coal
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He says that it's terrible that Britain is importing foreign coal .
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For example, some countries need to import coal because there are no indigenous supplies.
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A politically-controversial alternative would involve importing low-sulphur coal from overseas.
drug
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The bill would lift a ban on U.S. pharmacists re-importing drugs .
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W was convicted of conspiracy to illegally import a controlled drug .
food
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Arable land on some islands in the Palau archipelago has been contaminated by sea water, forcing their inhabitants to import food .
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At these allocations the home country exports manufactures and imports food .
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Some were forcibly settled there by government directives, imported to help provide food resources for the remote garrison settlements.
goods
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The technique allows manufacturers to shut down unofficially imported electronic goods .
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Thus they were unable to import consumer goods and meet basic needs of the people.
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Overvalued currencies kept the price of imported goods low, crowding out locally produced goods.
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She'd never really believed he was importing undeclared goods , or in any way breaking the law.
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To stem the flow, he advocates strict trade protections, including high tariffs on imported goods .
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Companies putting up factories at Subic can import goods for free and pay only a 5 percent tax on gross income.
material
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And school governor is fined for importing pornographic material .
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Briefly, they exported manufactured goods and capital, and they imported raw materials .
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Hull imported raw materials and later food for the industrial towns.
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Granite and alabaster were also imported with precious materials such as porphyry to give richness and lustre to interiors.
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It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world.
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However, many exporters import the materials and components used in their exported goods rather than buy them locally.
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Righton was fined £900 by Evesham court, Worcs, after he admitted importing and possessing indecent material .
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He was later fined 900 pounds after pleading guilty to possessing indecent photographs of children and importing indecent material .
oil
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When oil was first imported this was the place chosen for an oil refinery.
product
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Although these can be valuable instruments of environmental policy, the application of such requirements to imported products can pose significant difficulties.
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It crushes our potentialities and invades our lives with its imported products and televised movies that swamp the airwaves.
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Heherson Alvarez said disagreements over the taxation of imported petroleum products has stalled the passage of an oil industry deregulation bill.
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They said the venture is being sold because the companies can import products more economically.
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This is especially true when the alternative to import the product or the process exists.
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The balance of payments gets better precisely because incomes are down and people can not afford to buy imported products .
supply
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Many local industrialists rely on credit from international loan agencies, others import essential supplies and the majority import essential equipment.
■ VERB
export
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At these allocations the home country exports manufactures and imports food.
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A trade surplus means more products are being exported than imported .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the wines served in this restaurant are imported from France.
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The United States has to import some of its oil.
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Wood for the project will be imported from China.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cecil had imported a tribe of Bedouins to the site to play the spectacular scenes.
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King felt that importing additional slaves would make national defense more difficult and costly.
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These are made mainly of grain, much of which is imported from other parts of the world.