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The phrase "a foreign import" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a product or idea that is brought into a country from another location or culture. Generally, it is used in discussions about trade, economics, or cultural exchange. Example: The government plans to increase tariffs on foreign imports in an effort to protect local industries.
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So Protestantism was a foreign import.
So It is I is not quite a foreign import.
In China, competitive sport is a foreign import.
Buddhism, which is anyway a foreign import, has been cornered by the Dalai Lama.
Since classical music was itself a foreign import, the idea is forced to begin with.
Because it usually came with colonial rule, it was seen as a foreign import and rejected as profoundly unnatural.
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Brazil is experiencing a full-fledged rodeo boom, and while city dwellers may view the phenomenon as a bizarre foreign import and an unlikely rival to soccer, the view from the vast interior is very different.
Either way the notion that diving for penalties is a purely foreign import should be dismissed for the empty generalisation that it is.
He is home grown, not a fancy foreign import, but he is untested on the world stage.
Slated to go into effect next week, the tariff imposes a 25percenttaxax on all foreign imports of steel and a 10percenttaxax on foreign imports of aluminum.
The Ministry of Education released a statement on Valentine's Day last week, denouncing the holiday as an evil foreign import.
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