Shale gas, billowing out of the bedrock in ever-increasing quantities, is becoming the most important factor in the drive to lessen America's dependence on imported fuel.
Is it OK for an imported culture to dominate indigenous culture?
There are half a dozen tables in the back where speciality burgers of bison or ostrich can be washed down with IPAs and bitters both local and imported.
More than half of the food in Russia's supermarkets is imported, and, when it comes to Russian consumer goods, most are either poor quality or simply do not exist.
One dollar a day buys Maria the seeds to plant beans and corn to make tortillas or buy rice imported from the US.
I could wear a different outfit each day for two months – so why the hell do I pop down to Topman every month and pick up another cheap new shirt imported from the other side of the world?
What about the glorious alphonso mango?" Shelina Permalloo pretty much won MasterChef 2012 with imported mangoes in recipes inspired by her Mauritian roots.
It simply isn't the policy of the government to have cheap imported goods.
In 2011 the EU imported El Salvadorian sugar worth more than €4.7m: it is the country's second-biggest export.
Across the bulge of the northern part of sub-Saharan Africa there are huge challenges now from well-armed and financed terrorists groups that have imported this toxic ideology from the Middle East.
In reality, they have greater utility than that, but primarily as a dessert dish, and certainly not as an imported breakfast option.
