Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of reimporting; that which is reimported.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the practice of
reimporting something
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Examples
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This anti-reimportation is just more double standards from the free traders.
A Re-importation Parable, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The word reimportation being all you really need to know about this, it will allow the reimportation of drugs or that we negotiate the best possible price, what is their interest in being part of that conversation?
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The biggest of these (and one of the most popular) is being debated now -- allowing "reimportation" of drugs from Canada (and elsewhere) to save money.
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* Interfere with legitimate parallel trade in goods, including the resale of brand-name pharmaceutical products (known as drug "reimportation" in the United States);
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I seem to recall that Canada passed a law, or talked about one, that would make the "reimportation" illegal.
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Do those four things, plus drop all protections against "reimportation" (in other words, if you buy it, it's yours, and you may sell it to anyone you wish) and a huge change in the health care cost picture would instantaneously occur.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Karl Denninger 2010
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The biggest of these (and one of the most popular) is being debated now -- allowing "reimportation" of drugs from Canada (and elsewhere) to save money.
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(The topic is often referred to as "reimportation," but most of the affected drugs would simply be imported rather than first exported from the United States and then reimported.)
AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online Jack Calfee 2009
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What these various reimportation laws do is void these contracts
Plenty to Like in Freedomnomics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What these various reimportation laws do is void these contracts.
Plenty to Like in Freedomnomics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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