This led to the rise of exports, and a simultaneous rise in imports.

Second, any improvement in GDP derived from stronger exports leads to an increase in imports.

Indeed, many countries are already experiencing an increase in import prices for biological resources.

Expansion in domestic demand resulted in an increase of 22 per cent in imports.

Import growth, a sign of future exports, has also fallen.

The dissemination of NERICA varieties is expected to increase the rice production of Africa significantly, thereby replacing costly imports.

As they come out of their cyclical recessions, incomes will rise, leading to increased imports and even larger current account deficits.

At the same time, the lower dollar makes American products more competitive in global markets, leading to increased exports and reduced imports.

But the strengthening euro reduces both import prices and export demand, which, in itself, causes prices to fall .

Of course, increasing import dependence does not necessarily mean less energy security, any more than self sufficiency guarantees uninterrupted supply.

In small, open economies, higher deficits are unlikely to sustain domestic output, because most additional expenditure goes toward imports.

Congress has authorized the President to impose import duties on Chinese products if China remains unwilling to increase the value of its currency substantially against the dollar.

In 1908, he created the Rolex brand under which to sell his watches, and during World War I, he left England for Switzerland due to wartime tax increases levied on luxury imports.

This implies that an increase in imports of consumer goods equivalent to 10 of GDP could generate an increase in measured GDP of about 10 as well.

Because US imports are nearly twice as large as US exports, it takes a 20 increase in exports to balance a 10 increase in imports.

(c) Imports exports

6350 Import diversification

(Millions of United States dollars)

We Americans can sell off two thirds of the increment to our wealth to finance imports and still be 500 billion better off this year than we were last year.

Brazil and Argentina have, for example, significantly increased agricultural exports to China, while Central America and Mexico have seen their imports from China increase dramatically.

During those years, the rise in the volume of net imports just balanced the effect of the dollar s fall on the total cost of imports.

They will remain an important source of import demand, especially for high technology and industrial goods.

This was reflected in a 40 gain in the country s terms of trade (the price of exports relative to imports), which meant that the same export volumes translated into more dollars.

And we are now well on the way to diminishing returns.

3110 Minimum import prices

3340 Flexible import fees

4110 Advance import deposit

Illegal Imports Detected

Petrol is being sold in very limited amounts.

Some Chinese have called for a boycott of imports from the Philippines.

Sometimes they are a precursor to import restraints.

This is reminiscent of the defiance of the Supreme Court stay order in September 2004 on iron ore that was shipped from Buchanan port over a period of six months.

Port includes import, export and berthing taxes.

2390 Internal taxes and charges levied on imports n.e.s.

Annex III 2004 import and export of new and recovered substances

If Italy, Spain, and France were not part of the eurozone, they could allow their currencies to devalue weaker exchange rates would increase exports and reduce imports, eliminating their current account deficits.

Manufactured imports into Japan have increased considerably.

The country relies on Russia for various imports, including petroleum.

But this restructuring will tend to reduce, not increase, import demand, as exports and investment are much more import intensive than consumption.

The logic of the liberal approach is that the economic benefits of trade arise from imports the cheaper the imports, the better, even if the result is a trade deficit.

And the only way for the trade deficit to shrink substantially is for net imports to fall, which requires either a relatively sharp decline in the value of the dollar, thereby raising import prices, or a depression in the US.

Cheap imports ameliorate the effects of wage stagnation.

Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

The obvious way to square this circle is to spend more on imports.

Since then, however, the share of imports has decreased, and it should continue to do so.