Sentence examples for soaring import from inspiring English sources

China's trade surplus dropped in January to the lowest in nine months because of soaring import demand, new figures showed.

Inflation would surge as soaring import prices rippled through the economy; the IMF's analysis in 2012 suggested that Greek domestic prices would rise by 35%.

Derek Headey, an economist with the International Food Policy Research Institute, noted that in 2007 and 2008 many African countries were hit hard by soaring import bills, as were nations spread across the world, like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ecuador.

Before the nineteen-eighties, developing countries had so-called "agricultural marketing boards," which would buy commodities from farmers at fixed prices (prices high enough to keep farmers farming), and then store them in strategic reserves that could be used in the event of bad harvests or soaring import prices.

Gold is big business in India but the country's obsession with the metal is now being blamed for the nation's soaring import bill.

In Kenya, due to soaring import prices, reduced secondary season crop and post election disturbances, the price of maize in the Nairobi market - which fluctuated between USD 210 per tonne and USD 223 per tonne in the period October 2007 and January 2008 - increased to USD 257 per tonne in March.

Rising demand for animal feed has spurred soaring imports of subsidized corn from the United States.

It is not, however, soaring imports and surprisingly strong exports that keep the UK economy in bloom.

Australia began fumigating flower imports back in 1996 but, faced with soaring imports, as countries with cheaper labour upped their market share, a system of trust was introduced.

BEIJING — China posted a smaller-than-expected trade surplus Friday because of soaring imports and a pullback in global demand, giving mixed signals about how the economy was faring as some of its best export customers faltered.

China—source of soaring imports and the place to which many American firms shift their production is cast as the chief villain.The pressure is on for China to revalue its exchange rate or, say many lawmakers, face punitive tariffs.Alas, the attempt to slow structural change in American industry will not stop there.