imported

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Many of Nike’s shoes are now made elsewhere and imported into China, adding costs, though a Nike spokeswoman said that “China-for-China manufacturing remains a core and growing strategy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

U.S. beef prices are rising due to the smallest cattle herd in over 70 years, leading to 20% of U.S. beef being imported.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

China is a major oil producer, while most of its imported crude comes from Russia.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Last year, Brooklyn Academy, once a second home to Wilson, imported “Mary Said What She Said,” staring Isabelle Huppert from Paris, where hardly a year goes by without at least one big-deal Wilson work.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

River valleys of the southwestern United States eventually came to support irrigation agriculture and complex societies, but only after many of the developments on which those societies rested had been imported from Mexico.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond