importation
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Now he is back at his old ways, imposing new duties on the importation of brand-name pharmaceuticals and certain metals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Proposals to ban the importation of second hand petrol and diesel cars from 2030 have been scrapped by the Environment Minister.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
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 • Nov. 5, 2025
Meanwhile, in 1808, the U.S. banned the importation of enslaved Africans, which drove up the price of bonded laborers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
Its decline was largely a consequence of the importation of parasitic insects from the Far East and of the establishment of disease organisms fatal to it.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing importation
Vocabulary from The Articles of Confederation
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The 18th Amendment (1919)
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5.4: The Second Industrial Revolution (Sources 1–8)
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