Indonesia became a net oil importer in 2004 due to declining production and lack of new exploration investment.
One mode of home valuation was, to give the government, or its officers, the right to make the valuation after the one which the importer had given.
The warehousing system would enable the importer to watch the market and to select his own time for offering his goods for sale.
The quantity of goods in store being at all times readily known, it would enable the importer with an approach to accuracy to ascertain the actual wants of the market and to regulate himself accordingly.
To travellers of this period any unsoundness or "exhaustion" seemed the more incomprehensible in that Spain was by far the chief importer of bullion, the universal value of which they were accustomed to overrate.
The sum of the experience of those who had first-hand means of comparison suggests that Poland was as great an importer of luxuries as any country in Europe.
When an importer makes entry at the custom house for bonding his goods, he at that time provides the security required.
What are the advantages to the importerof bonded warehouses?
When theimporter has paid both customs and storage charges he is privileged to remove his goods.
Great Britain, on the other hand, is an enormous importer and consumer of food-stuffs and also of raw materials for her manufactures.
Although agriculture has been almost all in private hands, farms have been small and inefficient, and the republic traditionally has been a net importer of food.
Kyrgyzstan is a net importer of most types of food and fuel but is a net exporter of electricity.
The name having been lost, the importer renamed it.
As a young man he engaged with a brother in New York as an importer of dry goods, the firm being rated at half a million dollars.
The only respect in which his account differed from what I heard elsewhere was in the amount the importer receives, which has always been stated to me at $400.
Specific duties, on the contrary, are equal and uniform in all ports and at all times, and offer a strong inducement to the importer to bring the best article, as he pays no more duty upon that than upon one of inferior quality.
In this manner the dishonest importer and the foreign manufacturer enjoy a decided advantage over the honest merchant.
The honest importer produces his invoice to the collector, stating the actual price, at which he purchased the articles abroad.
Not so the dishonest importer and the agent of the foreign manufacturer.
The temptations which ad valorem duties present to a dishonestimporter are irresistible.
Single yarns made of jute for the manufacture of sugar bags only, to be imported by sugar-bag manufacturers only, the importer to give a bond to use the yarn exclusively for the manufacture of sugar bags.
An importer of sugar gave the importers' bond to pay the duty upon that sugar.
The importersold to a third person and the third person went to get the sugar.
Examination of the stock of any importer of high grade rugs will convince one who knows moths, that many of our commonest or their near relatives native to the Orient are really used as models for colour combinations in rug weaving.
I once asked a Chicago importer if he believed that Oriental rug weavers sometimes use these big night moths as colour guides in their weaving.
Although agriculture is almost all in private hands, farms are small and inefficient, and the republic traditionally is a net importer of food.
Ad valorem duties are those that are calculated and levied according to the value of the goods (usually as it was at the place of shipment) determined by an assessor, by invoice of sale, by statement of the importer under oath, etc.
Indeed, the importation of any article is proof conclusive that the importer thinks that the monetary costs of an article would be higher in the importing than in the exporting country.
If the foreign goods are still imported, the importer adds the duty paid to the selling price.
If it be so high that the importer cannot pay it and sell the goods at a profit, the facilities of production between this and other countries are said to be equalized, and the American producer is said to be protected.
Further than that the importer must take a material risk in exchange.
The practice in connection with this method of making payment for foreign purchases is for the shipper to draw his draft on the American importer and turn it over to his banker to forward for collection.
Without such banking facilities--that is, the ability to arrange with his bank to accept time bills drawn on it by a foreign shipper, the American importer is compelled to finance his purchases in either one of two ways.
They are then sent by the London accepting bank to the New York bank which opened the credit and the latter delivers them to the importer against his trust receipt.
This, however, ordinarily necessitates the negotiation by the importer of a loan on his promissory note.
In this purchase of exchange the importer makes payment for his goods.
Whenever there is a fall in the gold value of silver, either the exporter in the gold standard country or the importer in the silver country must suffer.
Our importer gets around our lack of banking facilities by having his bank arrange a credit with its London correspondent.
Jones, an importer of coffee in New York, desires to purchase a cargo of coffee in Rio de Janeiro.
This method while workable is obviously cumbersome, yet it is practically the only one which the American importer can follow in connection with such imports.
Thus the actual importer may make a profit on the shipment, not as a genuine exchange transaction, but at the expense of the central bank.
How can an importer take advantage of the great quantity of offers, which flood the market, during the first few months of the gathering of the crop?
Should an importer miss this opportunity of acquiring most desirable cotton?
It was manifestly impossible to increase the import, as long as the importer was obliged to sell the cotton on 3-4 months open credit.
The American bankers play a far more prominent part, as the German importerpays in dollars on arrival of the goods in port, and he has to buy the dollars at a rate of exchange, which is subject to the vagaries of the Stock Exchange.
The following day the purchaser returned to the importer with the complaint that that picric acid sold him was the most sensitive, most violent and treacherous explosive material in the world.
The importer could not convince him that he was mistaken, although he insisted that it was only necessary to know how to explode it, and that, when properly detonated, it was one of the most powerful explosives in the world.
The importer laughed, and reminded him of their previous conversation.
The bad man looked inquiringly at him, and the importer mumbled something to the effect that he "would let it go at that.
A well-known Italian importer in New York City was owed the sum of three thousand dollars by an other Italian, to whom he had loaned the money without security and who had abused his confidence.
That importer certainly will never contribute toward a society for the purpose of eradicating the "Black Hand" from the city of New York.
The importer by this time began to feel a certain reticence about his part in the matter--there might be some widows and orphans somewhere.
The local Italian crooks avail themselves of the universal fear of the vendetta, and let it be generally known that trouble will visit the banker or importer who does not "come across" handsomely.
Two weeks later the importer was summoned to a cellar on Mott Street.
The bravos formed a line along the cellar to the door, and, as the importer passed on his way out, each removed his hat and wished him a buona sera.
Finding that the debtor intended to cheat him out of the money, although he could easily have raised the amount of the debt had he so wished, the importer sent for a Camorrist and told him the story.
At last the Camorrist turned to the importer and said: "This man owes you three thousand dollars, I believe.
