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China is mostly mentioned in agribusiness over concerns about farmland ownership or import commitments on soybeans and beef.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

"Australia's import requirements for dogs are based on biosecurity risk, not the intended use of the animal," Australia's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry told a Senate inquiry in June.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Countries that need gas and don’t have enough of it can either import it via expensive pipelines or as liquefied natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

And with few buses or cars on the roads due to petrol shortages, private firms will also be able to sell fuel as well as import and construct electric vehicles.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The story is probably apocryphal, but its import isn’t.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Its electricity tracker includes only the energy that is produced in state, not imports from Arizona, for example.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

At the same time, China has managed to reduce its oil imports during the war thanks to its vast oil inventories and massive rollout of renewables and electric vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

The bureau also cited an increase in imports -- which are subtracted from GDP -- as a factor in Thursday's data.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The US now supplies about two-thirds of Europe's gas imports, up from roughly a quarter in 2021, according to energy analysts at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

It recognized England’s right to retain tariffs on American exports while granting English imports most-favored status in the United States; it implicitly accepted English impressment of American sailors.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

If the Strait of Hormuz remains impaired and China continues restricting phosphate exports, nitrogen producers with secure, low-cost inputs should remain better positioned than phosphate producers dependent on imported sulfur.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Despite claiming the supplements were manufactured in the US, they were actually imported from China, India and several other countries.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Two-thirds of U.S. seafood is imported; much of that comes in the form of farmed fish, such as Atlantic salmon, tilapia and Vietnamese catfish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

At the moment, decisions made in Beijing are bringing relief to other countries that depend on imported fossil fuels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

It still took place, but this Caesar’s thumb was more often turned up than down, and the number of animals imported to service the arena was far lower.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Because taxes are paid by importing companies, those businesses often pass the extra costs on to shoppers through higher prices.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Eugene Kim designed the interior of the spa, importing nearly all the materials and most of the furniture from Korea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Without Russian diesel, importing countries have turned in large part to U.S. diesel, which has helped push U.S. domestic prices higher, Mills said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

Extracting a tonne of coal now costs nearly twice as much as importing it, and domestic production no longer fully covers the country's needs.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

There is no evidence that people traded staple goods like fruits and meat, or that the existence of one band depended on the importing of goods from another.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari