shipment
Example Sentences
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Mexico halted its oil shipments to Cuba in response.
Chief Financial Officer Mark Murphy said that the company has started volume production and shipments of its new generation of high-bandwidth memory chips.
From Barron's
But the measures sparked outcry at home and abroad from firms facing an abrupt rise in taxes on shipments entering the US, and fuelled worries that the levies would lead to higher prices.
From BBC
U.S. imports of smartphones from China declined sharply over the course of last year, while shipments from India went up.
Brown says volatile gold swings drove the increase in exports, supported by an another volatile category, aircraft, which surged thanks to big business jet shipments to the U.S.
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