importation
Example Sentences
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While Congress banned slave importation in 1808, it didn’t ban the buying and selling of people.
In 1807, Congress passed and President Jefferson signed a bill prohibiting the importation of slaves.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said she was struggling to understand what Congress meant in the emergency powers law when it said the president may “regulate” importation.
From Los Angeles Times
She asked: “Can you point to any other place in the code, or any other time in history, where that phrase ‘together regulate importation’ has been used to confer tariff-imposing authority?”
From MarketWatch
Faced with such an emergency, he may “investigate, block ... or regulate” the “importation or exportation” of any property.
From Los Angeles Times
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