The commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country

Usage examples of importing.

They came to understand that the warehouse was indeed a functioning, legitimate business for importing giftware from overseas.

The company is comprised of consultants in every imaginable field of commerce-from consumer products to industrial and technical fields, from health care to finances, from telecommunications to publishing, fi-orn importing to transportation.

We will be coaxing Venetian and Thuringian glassmakers to make chemically resistant borosilicate glass, importing and refining Japanese zinc, and producing a variety of industrial chemicals.

I plunged into the environmental impact report on what importing leprechauns into Angels City was liable to do to the local thecology.

Although Iraq was never prohibited from importing school supplies under the sanctions, as with food and medicine, until December 1996, the regime chose not to take advantage of the mechanisms the United Nations created to import these items.

The smart sanctions would effect the first two changes through a new, much reduced list of dual-use items that Iraq would be prohibited from importing.

It was still all Billy with Mimi: his plans to make Hindi movies in England and America, importing the top stars, Vinod Khanna, Sridevi, to cavort in front of Bradford Town Hall and the Golden Gate Bridge -- "it's some sort of tax dodge, obviously," Mimi carolled gaily.

She envied the chic women who emerged from the rows of chauffeured Lincolns, Cadillacs, or one of the expensive foreign cars that the very rich were importing.

Even twenty minutes after midnight Maingreen looked superb, the mature trees importing an air of rustic antiquity for the buildings, as if the two had been coexisting for centuries.

They might even be domesticable, if anyone ever colonizes this planet some day‑‑save the trouble of importing food animals and beasts of burden from Earth.

He thought the worst that could happen is a wrist-slap and fine, for importing art objects without paying customs duty on them.

Instead of importing the German steel, as it was called, the Sheffield manufacturers began to make it themselves, principally from Dannemora iron imported from Sweden.

And we aren't likely to consider building a diesel locomotive at allat least, not until we are importing oil in large quantities.

There were membership cards of Sydney clubs, an odd Australian two-dollar note among the British currency, an Australian AA card together with an Australian driving licence and an International driving licence, a dozen business cards announcing where I lived and what I did -- it seemed I was the managing director of a firm importing office machinery.

Tens of thousands of spaceships congested local space, importing and exporting every commodity known to the human and xenoc races of the Confederation—their assigned flight vectors weaving a sluggish, ephemeral DNA coil around the five-hundred-and-fifty-thousand-kilometre orbital band.