Action d'importer, de faire entrer dans un pays donné. L'importation de toute drogue est prohibée.
1. A person (such as an actor or musician or celebrity) brought from a foreign country.
2. Goods or services bought from a foreign country.
Product or service that one country purchases from another for domestic consumption, or for processing and reexporting (Hong Kong, for example, is heavily dependent on imports for its export business). Imports may be visible (goods) or invisible (services). If an importing country does not have a counterbalancing value of exports, it may experience balance-of-payments difficulties and accordingly consider restricting imports by some form of protectionism (such as an import tariff or import quotas).
ETYM Cf. French importation. Related to Import.
1. The act or practice of importing or bringing goods into a country or state.
2. The act of bringing into one zone or form that which comes from another zone or form.
3. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.