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importer

/ˌɪmˈpɔɹtɚ/

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What does importer mean?

noun

  1. One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˌɪmˈpɔɹtɚ/

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Kyrgyzstan is a net importer of most types of food and fuel but is a net exporter of electricity.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1992 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #48
Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer.
Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3300
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The importer explained that in China human labor was cheaper than steam power.
Frank Lewis Dyer; Thomas Commerford MartinEdison: His Life and InventionsProject Gutenberg ebook #820
Each Party shall also provide that its competent authorities have the authority to give the importer an equivalent opportunity to have any such goods inspected.
CanadaNorth American Free Trade Agreement, 1992 Oct. 7 Tariff Phasing DescriptionsProject Gutenberg ebook #89
Her father was an intense, high-strung business man, an importer, who spent much time in Europe where he died of an American-contracted typhoid-fever, when Ethel was ten.
Robert S. (Robert Sproul) CarrollOur Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of NervousnessProject Gutenberg ebook #5994