6 sentences with “import”

His success began in Boston, where he worked in the import business in the 1830s.

The heaviest tax burden therefore fell on the lower classes in the form of increased import duties, which raised the prices of imported goods such as sugar and tobacco.

Along with philosophy and architecture, the most important Greek import to reach Roman shores was rhetoric: the mastery of words and language to persuade people and win arguments.

The Tea Act of 1773 gave the British East India Company the ability to export its tea directly to the colonies without paying import or export duties and without using middlemen in either Britain or the colonies.

Even so, Europeans did not import tobacco in large quantities until the 1590s. At that time, it became the first truly global commodity; English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese colonisers cultivated it for the world market.

With German blockades preventing the import of food quantities anywhere near pre-war quantities, all aspects of the British economy (especially agriculture and other forms of food production) were directed by wartime emergency ministries to prevent the British population from starving.