This was partly because 12" records were no longer being manufactured in Canada, leading to costly imports from the USA.

The fabrics she used were not exactly ordinary scraps but English prints - costly imports in the 1820's.

A modest recovery at the beginning of 2000 suffered a setback by a severe drought, and a subsequent bad harvest, requiring costly imports of grain and foodstuffs.

One negative effect could be a higher inflation rate resulting from costlier imports.

They predict that this will occur even as food shortages increase under the pressure of a debilitating drought and costly imports.

Sanctions are making imports 24% more costly on average.

Such costly imports would only be tolerated while the number of paddleboats made the generator and turbine factory uneconomical.

A more valuable yuan would make imports cheaper in China and Chinese goods more costly in foreign markets, a combination that would tend to slow growth.

Our living standards were "improved" by the availability of less costly imports, but at the expense of our economic strength today.

Home industry was meant to keep money in Utah rather than have it spent for costly imports from thousands of miles away.