Sentence examples for imports amount from inspiring English sources

The United States uses about eight million tons of wire rods a year, which is turned into thinner wire products of all kinds; imports amount to more than one-third of that.

But imports amount to about 5percentt of China's gross national product, versus 11percentt in the United States, and living standards are only about one-eighth as high.

Senegal's domestic production, for instance, covers only about half of the country's cereal utilization requirements, so its rice and wheat imports amount to an average of about 900 000 tonnes per annum, from the international market.

Last year, American merchandise exports to Africa totaled $6.7 billion, while imports amounted to $13.4 billion, or slightly more than what Japan exports here in a month.

Walmart's Chinese imports amounted to at least $49 billion in 2013, according to the study, which was based on trade and labor data.

In 1973, when the Arab oil embargo pushed prices sharply higher, oil imports amounted to only 36percentt of domestic oil consumption.

The sum of China's total exports and imports amounts to around 70% of its GDP, against only 25-30% in India or America.

The petitioners who filed the initial suit in the shrimp case last year argued that the lower-priced imports amounted to dumping and were driving down the price in the United States and undermining American producers.

Those electricity imports amounted, on some August days, to nearly the equivalent of a nuclear reactor's output, or enough to power more than 200,000 homes in the summer.

Japan's economic ministry said today it would impose retaliatory tariffs on United States steel imports–amounting to $4.88 million.

The central bank says gold imports amounted to $3.9bn during the quarter ending last December, down from $16.4bn in the previous three months.