The U.S.
imports more than 30,000 tons of toys every year from foreign markets, accounting now for 95 percent of toys sold in the U.S.
Today, the city of L.A. imports nearly 90 percent of its water, and the county
imports more than half from distant sources.
It should be of enormous benefit to the US, which originated the new technology, but still
imports more oil than it exports.
Even if we could manage only 70 billion gallons of biofuel, that would reduce our oil
imports more than 20 % or enough to stop importing middle eastern oil.
-- China now
imports more oil than the U.S.!
Norway, the world's top farmed salmon producer, now
imports more fish oil than any other country.
Strong currencies make a nation's exports more expensive and imports from foreign markets cheaper, whereas weaker currencies make exports cheaper and
imports more expensive.
A certain event when a country
imports more products and goods from the other country than it exports in return.
If the United States
imports more than it exports, it has a trade deficit; if the U.S. exports more than it imports it has a trade surplus.
Inflation would cheapen the dollar, making
imports more expensive and exports cheaper, stimulating the US economy.
Given that the U.S.
imports more than 90 percent of its seafood, aquaculture presents a powerful opportunity to increase domestic supply and reduce the nation's seafood trade deficit, which now totals over $ 13 billion.
For example, even though the U.S.
imports more than 80 percent of its seafood... wallet cards here focus mainly on fish from our national fisheries.
Today Jamaica
imports more than half its food — including, ironically, sugar.
Europe currently
imports more than half its energy, but this is set to rise to 70 per cent by 2030.
The other hidden impact, according to Mr Purbrick, was the strength of the Australian dollar, which made
imports more competitive.
Meaning Britain
imports more wine per head than any other of the world's top importers.
In fact, according to the USDA, the United States
imports more pepper than any other country, and accounts for one fourth of annual world imports.
The company is also expecting business in South America to increase as
it imports more products from Chile and Peru.
Administration officials are weighing whether to invoke national security considerations to combat rising Chinese steel and aluminum
imports more broadly, a move that trade analysts fear could trigger a wave of similar measures by U.S. trading partners.
The EU
imports more from Switzerland; and threats to cut off energy exports are less believable as Moscow increasingly depends on those sales to keep its own lights on.
The move is aimed at recouping the billions of dollars «lost» each year to other countries as the US
imports more than it exports from countries like China and Mexico.
Canada also
imports more from the United States (mostly auto parts and heavy machinery) than it exports to the United States, which is exactly the kind of trade balance the Trump administration likes.
Republicans in Congress are considering a «border adjustment tax» that would make
imports more expensive.
Since a weaker dollar makes
imports more expensive, it tends to correlate with higher prices.
Thus, he explains, Mexico
imports more from the U.S. these days than do all of the so - called BRIC nations combined — Brazil, Russia, India and China.
As Modern Healthcare notes, the U.S.
imports more medical, surgical, dental, and veterinarian instruments from Mexico than it does from any other country, with more than $ 5.4 billion worth of these supplies coming in from the nation between January and November of 2016 alone.
Trade has grown sharply between the three nations who are parties to NAFTA but that increase of trade activity has resulted in rising trade deficits for the U.S. with both Canada and Mexico -; the U.S.
imports more from Mexico and Canada than it exports to these trading partners.
It banned waste
imports more than a decade ago.
Nor is core as hot as it looks on paper, he said; the decline in the value of the dollar from a year ago is making
imports more expensive.
The U.S. demands came after Beijing offered to narrow the trade deficit by $ 50 billion, including by
importing more liquefied natural gas, agricultural products, semiconductors and luxury goods, according to the person.
And while trade isn't a zero - sum game — Americans aren't necessarily worse off because they have access to cheap foreign products —
importing more than you export leads to a gradual erosion of wealth.
He wants to see business improve its productivity, increase its R&D investment and grow its exports to new foreign markets — particularly to emerging markets, which for the first time in 2012 will
import more goods than will the developed countries.
«China does have to play the game in technology to an extent because they still
import more silicon semiconductors than oil and it will take years until they can be fully self - sufficient on semiconductors.»
Environmentalists have long urged Ontario to
import more clean power from Quebec's hydro - electric dams, but officials always said that would require huge and expensive upgrades to the transmission lines linking the two provinces.
While Canada is exporting more professional services abroad, we're also
importing more.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported last week that China
imported more crude oil than the U.S. for the first time in 2017.
Pretty much as you'd expect from the beer and pizza model -
we imported more:
What's more, the U.S. has over the last decade consistently
imported more steel than it has exported.
When the world prices resources at a premium at to manufactured stuff, we export more of the relatively expensive stuff and
import more of the relatively cheap stuff.
And if they don't trust Trump, they're going to be more reluctant to make concessions to US demands, which could include things like forcing Japan to
import more US cars or agreements on patent laws that benefit US pharmaceutical companies.
While the country has the world's third - largest ore reserves, it is
importing more refined metal than it ships after output in July fell to the lowest on records going back to 1996, data show.
This would encourage grocers to
import more foods, regardless of the state of our loonie, a trend we have seen over the last few years.
Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Eon, said there were no obvious options for Europe to narrow the US advantage — whether by drilling for shale gas,
importing more liquefied natural gas or importing inexpensive US supplies.
Among other things, the US wants China to
import more American goods and to stop forcing American companies to hand over their prized intellectual property if they want to do business in China.
Since trade is tied so closely to the U.S. economy, measures that make exporting and
importing more difficult could have a negative effect, leading to a lack of economic growth and even an eventual recession.
Analysts say that Trump might be interested in any number of proposals, like forcing Japan to
import more US cars or agreements on patent laws that benefit US pharmaceutical companies.
We import more than we export; highly inflationary.
Kuwait says that even though China is
importing more oil, its exports to the world's second - largest economy were stable.
China is also the United States» most valuable customer for soybeans,
importing more than one third of all domestically produced soybeans.
This is associated with support for domestic production even when goods could be
imported more cheaply.