importer

Brings goods in

An importer is a person or business that brings goods into a country from abroad for sale or distribution: The company is a major importer of Italian wines.

The term applies both to the entity doing the importing and to the country receiving goods: China is the world's largest importer of oil.

trade

tariff

Tax on traded goods

  • customsTraditional practices or import taxes
  • dutyRequired moral task
  • quotaFixed assigned amount

goods · merchandise · commodity · wholesale · retail · buyer · supplier · procurement · sourcing · inventory

customs

clearance

Permitted passage or approval

valuation · classification · compliance · regulation · documentation · admissibility · anti-dumping · countervailing · bond · manifest

logistics

shipping

Transporting goods to destinations

warehousing · delivery · consignment · pallets · distribution · port · loading · unloading · tracking · forwarding

computing

module

Independent functional component

namespace · script · loader · parser · bundler · require · include · plugin

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direction of trade

importerexporter

Seller to foreign markets

shipper · sender

Phrases
Family

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