But as imported mustards and other edibles caught on, so did domestic companies.
Vast numbers of laborers have lost jobs as imported goods from low-wage countries arrived.
Like her father's line of clothing, the dress is labelled as imported.
Air travel and the Rotterdam Europort did for Liverpool as imported textiles did for Manchester.
Linked at first with Paris, it gradually developed its own balletic idiom from native as well as imported sources.
Movie theatres offer mostly kung fu and other action-oriented films, as well as imported and domestic dramas.
Touted as imported from Italy, the dessert combined a shortbread base and custard filling, topped with a lavish display of red and black currants, raspberries and blackberries.
Walnut trees have been cultivated in Britain for centuries yet, curiously, the nut has never been as popular here as imported almonds.
Still, the sun and blue sky and reddish-gold light as we drove around Blagoveshchensk struck me as imported, not quite Russian.
Fiji's clothing industry has reported hundreds of lay-offs, as imported materials run out due to a ban imposed by Australian trade unions.
The purchase of foreign R&D, in such forms as imported computers and machinery, appears to earn a higher rate of return than domestically acquired technology.
