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Import1. A good that crosses into a country, across its border, for commercial purposes. 2. A product, which might be a service, that is provided to domestic residents by a foreign producer. 3. To cause a good or service to be an import under definitions 1 and/or 2.Similar MatchesImport biasImport bias1. Any bias in favor of importing. 2. Applied to growth, it tends to mean a bias against importing, and against trading more generally. Thus growth that is based disproportionately on accumulation of the factor used intensively in the import-competing industry and/or technological progress favoring that industry. Import elasticityImport elasticityUsually means the import demand elasticity. Import substituteImport substituteA good produced on the domestic market that competes with imports, either as a perfect substitute or as a differentiated product. Parallel importParallel importTrade that is made possible when the owner of intellectual property causes the same product to be sold in different countries for different prices. If someone else imports the low-price good into the high-price country, that is a parallel import. Import-weighted average tariffImport-weighted average tariffSee trade weighted average tariff. Further SuggestionsImport quotaDutiable imports Import authorization Basic import price Import protection Minimum import price Import Quota Import demand elasticity Voluntary import expansion Elasticity of demand for imports Import substitution development strategy Marginal propensity to import Import surcharge Import-competing Import license Export import Bank (Ex IM Bank) Average propensity to import Import licensing Sole importing agency Import propensity Import substitution Import penetration Import substituting industrialization Import price index Import surveillance |
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