Sentence examples for imports increased from inspiring English sources

The cost of petroleum imports increased 4.1 percent.

Exports increased by £0.1bn and imports increased by £2.6bn.

Reducing such tariffs would boost revenues as legal imports increased.

In China, yacht imports increased threefold from 2009 to 2010.

Imports increased for the first time since July, advancing 0.4percentto to 33.5 billion Canadian dollars.

Imports increased about 4.5 million barrels a day in the last decade.

As foreign imports increase, people are voting with their feet and domestic movies are slipping financially.

The strengthening of the dollar is also likely to hit exports and increase the price of imports, increasing the US balance of payments deficit.

To finance these imports, increasing amounts of hard currency were needed, and this could be obtained only by increasing exports to the West.

Meantime, the U.S. saw imports increase from $8.25 million in 1996 to $14 million last year, according to U.S. Trade Representative statistics.

That could become even more troublesome, the authors note, if Asian imports increase as expected in the coming decades.