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Petersen said Flexport discovered that one of its new customers had been importing T-shirts with pictures of horses on them under the customs code for live horses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

In recent years, Pakistan had been importing wheat from Ukraine to meet the needs of the province, home to 18 percent of the country’s population.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Thierry Breton, the E.U.’s internal market commissioner, said the bloc has found substitutes for roughly half of what it had been importing from Russia.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

The link can carry up to 2GW of power, and had been importing electricity from France in recent days, after UK prices hit a record high of £540 per MWh on the wholesale energy market.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2021

In 1915 France had been importing 2,000,000 tons of coal a month across the Channel from England.

From Germany, The Next Republic? by Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)