Sentence examples for refusing to import from inspiring English sources

Examples of negative sanctions include the following: refusing to export (embargoes), refusing to import (boycotts), covert refusals to trade (blacklists), purchases intended to keep goods out of the hands of target countries (preclusive buying), deprivation of ownership (expropriation), punitive taxation, aid suspensions, and asset freezes.

Many countries also tried to prevent Europe from using environmental rules to protect farmers, particularly by refusing to import genetically modified foods.

The Chinese – sole suppliers of tea to the world – refused to import much from the West.

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For the past two years, Russia has refused to import meat, dairy, or produce from Western countries.

"The chef refused to import beef from abroad," said the restaurant's manager, Mehdi Ouidane, "because it was too easy".

If we refuse to import the tar-sands oil from Canada, we will merely be redirecting it to China and other countries.

Goebbels's ministry also found out which American actors and crew members were Jewish or anti-Nazi, and refused to import films on which they had worked.

The European Union ban against British beef was dropped in mid-1999, though France refused to import the meat until late 2002, and sales have recovered.

This time, Prime Minister Tony Blair has resisted calls to ban French beef despite widespread resentment over the fact that more than a year after the European Commission ended its ban on exports of British beef France still refuses to import it.

Mr. Domínguez defines the crisis bluntly: Mexico's sugar production keeps rising, while the United States floods Mexico with a cheaper sweetener, corn syrup, and refuses to import Mexico's sugar surplus.