Importation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Importation \Im`por*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. importation. See
     {Import}, v. t.]
     1. The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering. [R.]
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     2. The act or practice of importing, or bringing into a


        country or state; -- opposed to exportation.
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     3. That which is imported; commodities or wares introduced
        into a country from abroad.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  importation
       n 1: the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from
            a foreign country [syn: {importing}]
       2: commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign
          country [syn: {import}] [ant: {export}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMPORTATION, comm. law. The act of bringing goods and merchandise into the 
  United States from a foreign country. 9 Cranch, 104, 120; 5 Cranch, 368; 2 
  Mann. & Gr. 155, note a. 
       2. To prevent the mischievous interference of the several states with 
  the national commerce, the constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 10, 
  provides as follows: "No state shall, without the consent of the congress, 
  lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be 
  absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce 
  of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be 
  for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be 
  subject to the revision and control of the congress." 
       3. This apparently plain provision has received a judicial 
  construction. In the year 1821, the legislature of Maryland passed an act 
  requiring that all importers of foreign articles, commodities, &c., by the 
  bale or package, of wine, rum, &c., and other persons selling the same by 
  wholesale, bale or package, hogshead, barrel or tierce, should, before they 
  were authorized to sell, take out a license for which they were to pay fifty 
  dollars, under certain penalties. A question arose whether this act was or 
  was not a violation of the constitution of the United States, and 
  particularly of the above clause, and the supreme court decided against the 
  constitutionality of the law. 12 Wheat. 419. 
       4. The act of congress of March 1, 1817, 3 Story, L. U. S. 1622, 
  provides: 
       5.-1. That, after the 30th day of September next, no goods, wares, or 
  merchandise, shall be imported into the United States from any foreign port 
  or place, except in vessels of the United States, or in such foreign vessels 
  as truly or wholly belong to the citizens or subjects of that country of 
  which the goods are the growth, production or manufacture; or from which 
  such goods, wares or merchandise, can only be or most usually are, first 
  shipped for transportation: Provided, nevertheless, That this regulation 
  shall not extend to the vessels of any foreign nation which has not adopted, 
  and which shall not adopt a similar regulation. 
       6.-2. That all goods, wares or merchandise, imported into the United 
  States contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, and the ship or 
  vessel wherein the same shall be imported, together with her cargo, tackle, 
  apparel, and furniture, shall be forfeited to the United States and such 
  goods, wares, or merchandise, ship, or vessel, and cargo, shall be liable to 
  be seized, prosecuted, and condemned, in like manner, and under the same 
  regulations, restrictions, and provisions, as have been heretofore 
  established for the recovery, collection, distribution, and remission, of 
  forfeitures to the United States by the several revenue laws. 
       7.-4. That no goods, wares, or merchandise, shall, be imported, under 
  penalty of forfeiture thereof, from one port of the United States to another 
  port of the United States, in a vessel belonging wholly or in part to a 
  subject of any foreign power; but this clause shall not be construed to 
  prohibit the sailing of any foreign vessel from one to another port of the 
  United States, provided no goods, wares, or mere other than those imported 
  in such vessel from some foreign port, and which shall not have been 
  unladen, shall be carried from one port or place to another in the United 
  States. 
       8.-6. That after the 30th day of September next, there shall be paid 
  upon every ship or vessel of the United States, which shall be entered in 
  the United States from any foreign port or place, unless the officers, and 
  at least two-thirds of the crew thereof, shall be proved citizens of the 
  United States, or persons not the Subjects of any foreign prince or state, 
  to the satisfaction of the collector, fifty cents per ton: And provided 
  also, that this section shall not extend to ships or vessels of the United 
  States, which are now on foreign voyages, or which may depart from the 
  United States prior to the first day of May next, until after their return 
  to some port of the United States. 
       9.- 7. That the several bounties and remissions, or abatements of duty, 
  allowed by this act, in the case of vessels having a certain proportion of 
  seamen who are American citizens, or persons not the subjects of any foreign 
  power, shall be allowed only, in the case of vessels having such proportion 
  of American seamen during their whole voyage, unless in case of sickness, 
  death or desertion, or where the whole or part of the crew shall have been 
  taken prisoners in the voyage. Vide article Entry of goods at the Custom-
  house.