7 sentences with “imports”

Congress passed its first major piece of legislation by imposing a tariff on imports under the Tariff Act of 1789.

After ascending the throne, Charles II passed the Navigation Act of 1660, which reformulated the 1651 Act to ensure a monopoly on imports from the colonies.

As gatekeepers of east-west trade, the Ottomans could tax both exports and imports to Europe, and during the main period of Ottoman imperialism the conquered territories also provided lucrative plunder.

He also addressed the economic problems of the time by calling for Congress to have the power to regulate commerce, to raise revenue through taxes on imports and postage, and to enforce congressional requisitions on the states.

Until 1857, India was governed by the British East India Company (EIC), the state-sponsored monopoly that was established in the 17th century to exploit overseas trade and which controlled India's monopoly on imports and exports.

These men proposed a 5 percent tax on imports coming into the United States, a measure that would have produced enough revenue to pay off the debt. However, their proposal failed to win the unanimous support of the states when Rhode Island rejected it.

In this influential pamphlet, which circulated widely in the colonies, Dickinson acknowledged that the Empire could regulate trade, but argued that Parliament could impose neither internal taxes, such as stamps, on goods nor external taxes, such as customs duties, on imports.