(|) ̷ ̷+ noun
Usage: often attributive
: cessation or prohibition of the import of goods from another country especially as employed against Great Britain by the American colonies in the Revolutionary era in retaliation for the Townshend Acts and by the United States in the Napoleonic era as a measure of reprisal for British violations of American neutral rights
nonimportation associations made effective use of an economic boycott — American Guide Series: North Carolina
the device of nonimportation was tried, in resistance to British political and economic aggression — J.C.Fitzpatrick