If somebody throws away a half-finished bottle, Sayyid checks with me to see if it's imported and thus might have resale value.
But before the new rules on Thursday, ivory could be bought or sold within the US if it was imported before the animal was listed as endangered, or if the elephant died of natural causes.
The DJ and producer Mr. Harris was the house DJ for the night, inside some sort of jungle gym that looked as if it were imported from the planet Krypton, or maybe just from any edition of the MTV Europe Music Awards, which have been invariably more forward than the home-field production for years.
The building's facade looks as if it was imported from a ghost town in Oregon, and the interior, also decorated in a western motif, features Frederic Remington etchings and equipment that would be more at home on the range and the ranch than at a New England watering hole.
The Machinery Safety Directive provides the regulatory basis for all machinery that is made or supplied in the European Union (EU), even if it is imported from outside the EU.
The software has data bank of various vectors in use for library construction, if not it was imported from Manufacture's web site (Invitrogen).
And what's really awesome is that you can search all of this stuff if it has been imported into Momento.
Still, I couldn't tell if it had actually imported my Facebook friends who are also on Google+ because most of those are also duplicated in my Gmail contacts.
Thus, effective protection in one country may be much higher than that in another even though its nominal tariffs are lower, if it tends to import commodities of a high level of fabrication with correspondingly low ratios of value added to product price.
The U.S. already imports roughly a million barrels of Canadian tar-sands oil a day, and if it doesn't import the rest some other country will.
