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import definition - finance
To purchase goods or services from a company in another country. If imports exceed exports, then the purchasing country has a trade deficit.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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