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It's how your local economy quietly speaks a dozen foreign languages at once
means To bring goods, ideas, or files in from somewhere else — usually across a border — for use at home.
from From Latin importare, a fusion of in- ('into') and portare ('to carry') — the same portare that gives us porter, portable, and the ship's port. So at its root, to import is literally to carry something into harbor, which is exactly how the word arrived in English in the 1400s: cargo and vocabulary alike, unloaded at the dock.
- oldest trade
- Sumerians imported tin to forge bronze tools
- hidden cost
- Tariffs are taxes paid by buyers, not exporters
- silent fleet
- Ships move ninety percent of world trade
- code twin
- Python's import command pulls in foreign written goods too
java programming language — created 1995 by sun microsystems, uses 'import' keyword for package inclusion
python import statement — core python feature since 1991, loads modules and packages into namespace
us tariff imports — goods entering united states subject to customs duties and trade regulations