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The act of carrying, conveying, or delivering. [R.]

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

lity and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

ting trade in corn, especially those in force in Great Britain till 1846, prohibiting the importation of foreign grain for home consumption, except when the price rose above a certain rate. -- Corn marigold. (Bot.) See under Marigold. -- Corn oyster, a fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, the combi…

certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

ll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.

A duty levied on all importations.

A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver. The influx of food into the Celtic region, however, was far from keeping pace with the influx of consumers. Macaulau. The general…

Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke.

ch discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade. Writ of protection. (Law) (a) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial writ issued to a person required to attend cou…

Deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties. Bouvier.