#imports

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#dollar #imports #prices #rise #would

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined. ↗

— John Bruton

#around #canada #combined #countries #developing

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#competition #considered #consumers #create #domestic

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#fortunately #her #imports #materials #raw

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#course #desire #employ #end #everything

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#annually #billion #cafta #currently #goods

The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#dependence #east #energy #energy sources #foreign

Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

#dollars #equal #i #imports #more