The U.S. will try to get agreement among the industrialized countries to take more textile imports from the less-developed countries over the years.

As soon as the fox has taken hold on most of the populace he imports more wharf rats, who, of course, say they are the aggrieved victims of an extermination campaign in the city.

The global economic crisis has had less impact on imports because the sector is more diversified than exports.

The Bahamas imports more than $ 250 million in foodstuffs per year, representing about 80 % of its food consumption.

Hume argued that England could not permanently gain from exports, because hoarding gold ( i. e., currency ) would make gold more plentiful in England ; therefore, the prices of English goods would rise, making them less attractive exports and making foreign goods more attractive imports.

Furthermore, China, the Middle East, central Europe and Africa are absorbing more of the world's imports which in the end may result in a world economy that is more evenly balanced.

The U. S. accounts for almost half of Costa Rica's exports, imports, and tourism, and more than two-thirds of its foreign investment.

Finland imports a lot of goods and basic necessities, such as fuel, and the two nations are agreeing on issues more than disagreeing on them.

Various factors have so far stymied more diversification ( a small market of 1 million people, dependence on French imports, inability to capitalize on regional markets, lack of entrepreneurial zeal among the Gabonese, and the fairly regular stream of oil " rent ").

In a similar way, a nation may also have a surplus ' balance of trade ' because it exports more than it imports but a negative ( or deficit ) ' balance of payments ' because, it has a much greater shortfall in transfers of capital.

At the same time, imports will also become more costly – stimulating the production of domestic substitutes to replace them.

Liechtenstein imports more than 85 % of its energy requirements from the Swiss.

Imports continued to increase more rapidly than exports during the first nine months of 2004 ; Moldova ’ s terms of trade worsened, as higher-priced energy imports outpaced the value of Moldova ’ s main exports — agricultural and agro-processing goods.

Imports of Soviet goods to Germany fell to 223 million Reichsmarks in 1934 as the more isolationist Stalinist regime asserted power and the abandonment of post – World War I Treaty of Versailles military controls decreased Germany's reliance on Soviet imports.

Exports were somewhat more than 1 million tons and imports about 2 million tons ; about half of the latter was petroleum and petroleum products.

At present, Afghanistan imports more than 320 million kilowatt hours of electricity every year from Turkmenistan.

The United States supplies more than one-third of Venezuela's food imports.

" Gold used to pay for imports reduces the money supply of importing nations, causing deflation and a reduction in the general price level for goods and services, making them more competitive, while the importation of gold by net exporters serves to increase the money supply, causes inflation and an increase in the general price level, making them less competitive.

The assumption that imports carry moral hazards, and that tax, trade, tariff measures should compensate for harms done, is shared by advocates of fair trade whose programs address, in addition, more overt social justice concerns of human beings, such as the maintenance of the " human capital " of a region.

The famine relief model increasingly used by aid groups calls for giving cash or cash vouchers to the hungry to pay local farmers instead of buying food from donor countries, often required by law, as it wastes money on transport costs, but more importantly, it perpetuates the cycle of dependency on foreign imports rather than helping to create real local stability through agricultural abundance.

The act, and the ensuing retaliatory tariffs by U. S. trading partners, reduced American exports and imports by more than half.

U. S. imports decreased 66 % from US $ 4. 4 billion ( 1929 ) to US $ 1. 5 billion ( 1933 ), and exports decreased 61 % from US $ 5. 4 billion to US $ 2. 1 billion, both decreases much more than the 50 % decrease of the GDP.

This circumstance was due to the fact that imports grew faster than exports.

Currently, however, frozen imports are the most important source of beef, costing four times less than locally produced beef.

Leontief found out that the U. S's exports were less capital intensive than its imports.

In FY 2000-01 exports posted a greater increase ( 14 %) than imports ( 4. 5 %), helping bring the trade deficit down by 4 % from the previous year to $ 749 million.

Most of Poland's imports are capital goods needed for industrial retooling and for manufacturing inputs, rather than imports for consumption.

In 2004, over 80 percent of Chinese crude oil imports transited the Straits of Malacca, with less than 2 percent transiting the Straits of Lombok.

Due to differing valuations in other European countries this inadvertently resulted in a silver shortage as silver coins were used to pay for imports, while exports were paid for in gold, effectively moving Britain from the silver standard to its first gold standard, rather than the bimetallic standard implied by the proclamation.

The Pony afforded a much higher degree of quality and refinement in the lowest price auto segment than the Eastern-bloc imports of the period then available.

Rightward shifts of the IS curve also result from exogenous increases in investment spending ( i. e., for reasons other than interest rates or income ), in consumer spending, and in export spending by people outside the economy being modelled, as well as by exogenous decreases in spending on imports.

The United States receives a growing percentage of Comoros ' exports but supplies only a negligible fraction of its imports ( less than 1 %).

Hence, the US State Department reduced economic aid to and commercial trade with Guatemala, which harmed the Guatemalan national economy, because 85 per cent of exports were sold to the US, and 85 per cent of imports were bought from the US.

Technically, the 85 % rule in the United States applies equally to imports, but there are obvious difficulties in enforcing the regulation.

With nearly 85 percent of North Vietnam's imports ( which arrived by sea ) blocked by Pocket Money, the administration and the Pentagon believed that cutting its final lines of communication with its socialist allies.

Average tariff rates nearly doubled from the initial 20 % target for 1842 to about 40 %, and the percentage of dutiable goods jumped from about 50 % of all imports to over 85 % of all imports.

The law also raised the percentage of dutiable goods from just over 50 % of all imports to over 85 % of all imports.

Burundi is a net food importer, with food accounting for 17 % of imports in 1997.

The United States is by far its largest trading partner, accounting for about 73 % of exports and 63 % of imports as of 2009.

During 2006, Chile imported US $ 26 billion from the Americas, representing 54 % of total imports, followed by Asia at 22 %, and Europe at 16 %.

Turkey is by far the main trading partner of the Turkish-occupied area, supplying 55 % of imports and absorbing 48 % of exports.

Even so, the EU continues to be the second-largest trading partner of northern Cyprus, with a 24. 7 % share of total imports and 35 % share of total exports.

About 70 % of all cargo, excluding Caucedo and free zone exports / imports, is moved through this port.

The EU is Egypt ’ s biggest trading partner currently accounting for 42 % of Egyptian exports and 37 % of imports, with the balance of trade still in the EU's favour.

Exports in 1999 grew 1. 9 % while imports grew 3 %, narrowing El Salvador's trade deficit.

90 % of these exports went to the Soviet Union to pay for imports and debts.

Marine transport is responsible for 72 % of France's imports and exports.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

Figures from the CIA World Factbook show the main export markets in 2006 were United Kingdom 30. 8 %, Spain 22. 7 %, Germany 13. 7 %, Turkmenistan 10. 4 %, Switzerland 8. 3 %, Italy 6. 7 % while the corresponding figures for imports are Spain 23. 4 %, Russia 12. 3 %, Italy 12 %, UK 9 %, France 8. 9 %, Netherlands 6. 8 % and United States 4. 7 %.

The United States is the country's largest trading partner, providing 36 % of Guatemala's imports and receiving 40 % of its exports.

In the same year, 79 % of Hungary ’ s export and 70 % of the imports were transacted inside the EU.

Bardhan and Jafee found that intermediate inputs occupy 37 to 38 % of U. S. imports for the years 1992 and 1997, whereas the percentage of intrafirm trade grew from 43 % in 1992 to 52 % in 1997.