3100 examples of imports in sentences

Imports influence the national life.

Then Congress asked the States to vest in it the power to levy a tax of five per cent, on imports for a limited period, but, after waiting two years for the action of the States, less than nine concurred.

Most gracious goddess, more than mortal wight Your heavenly hue of right imports no less Most glad am I, in that it was my chance To undertake this enterprise in hand, Which doth so greatly glad your princely mind.

And England, if my loue thou holdst at ought, As my great power thereof may giue thee sense, Since yet thy Cicatrice lookes raw and red After the Danish Sword, and thy free awe Payes homage to vs; thou maist not coldly set Our Soueraigne Processe, which imports at full By Letters conjuring to that effect

Alas sweet Lady: what imports this Song? Ophe.

Above all, the administration of the "Maritime Customs", that is to say of the collection of duties on imports and exports, was brought under the control of the Chinese government: until then it had been under foreign control.

For she has been generous in telling us all that it imports us most to know.

The imports are valued at five or six million dollars yearly.

Cuba now imports nearly $40,000,000 worth of alimentary substances, altogether too much for a country of its productive possibilities.

But the imports of foodstuffs are undoubtedly excessive, although there are good reasons for the present situation.

The exact accuracy of the record is questionable, but the returns for the year 1894, the year preceding the revolution, show the total imports of the island as $77,000,000, and the total exports as $99,000,000.

The probability is that a proper valuation would show a considerable advance in the value of the imports.

It may be assumed that had there been no disorder, the trade of the island, by natural growth, would have reached $90,000,000 for imports and $120,000,000, for exports, in 1900.

As it was, the imports of that year were $72,000,000, and the exports, by reason of the general wreck of the sugar business, were only $45,000,000.

The exports of 1905, at $99,000,000, equalled those of 1894, while the imports materially exceeded those of the earlier year.

In 1913, the exports reached $165,207,000, and the imports $132,290,000.

On the basis of the total commerce of the island, the records of recent years show this country as the source of supply for about 53 per cent, of Cuba's total imports, and as the market for about 83 per cent, of its exports.

Our imports for the five-year period 1904-1908 averaged 1,200,000 tons a year.

Using the figures showing exports from the United States to Cuba, instead of Cuba's records showing imports from this country, it appears that our sales to the island in the fiscal year 1903, immediately preceding the operation of the treaty, amounted to $21,761,638.

The fact that our imports from Cuba are double our sales to Cuba, in the total of a period of years, has given rise to some foolish criticism of the Cubans on the ground that, we buying so heavily from them, they should purchase from us a much larger percentage of their import requirements.

Humboldt, Baron Alexander, 8, 14, 15, 16, 35, 53 Hurricanes, 53 I Imports and Exports, 253, 256 Independence, 162 et seq.

Mr. Sherman was against the second part ["but a tax or duty may be imposed on such migration or importation at a rate not exceeding the average of the duties laid on imports"], as acknowledging men to be property by taxing them as such under the character of slaves.

Within a couple of months it was over and soon prices were again rising as the result of large exports of merchandise followed by gold imports. § 6.

When prices rise not only as compared with former domestic prices, but as compared with current foreign prices, foreign imports are stimulated and exports fall.

Whatever shadings of mortality, Whatever imports from the world of death Had come among these objects heretofore, 250 Were, in the main, of mood less tender: strong, Deep, gloomy were they, and severe; the scatterings Of awe or tremulous dread, that had given way In later youth to yearnings of a love Enthusiastic, to delight and hope.

3100 examples of  imports  in sentences