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 it's 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 Controul of the Congress.
They have authority to appoint and receive ambassadors; to execute treaties and alliances already formed; to provide for the collection of duties on imports and
exports; to regulate the mint, with a saving to the provincial rights; to govern as sovereigns the dependent territories.
Great news this for that fierce old country, whose trade for a generation had been war, her
exports archers and her imports prisoners.
This New South Dock (it was its official name), round which my earlier professional memories are centred, belongs to the group of West India Docks, together with two smaller and much older basins called Import and
Export respectively, both with the greatness of their trade departed from them already.
Likewise glorious followers, who make themselves as trumpets of the commendation of those they follow, are full of inconvenience; for they taint business through want of secrecy; and they
export honor from a man, and make him a return in envy.
Fine grapes used to grow in the islands, and an excellent wine was made and
exported. But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made.
I was, however, assured that of the whole land, not more than half is yet in a productive state; if such be the case, considering the present large
export of sugar, this island, at some future period when thickly peopled, will be of great value.
A microscopic examination for trichinae shall be made of all swine products
exported to countries requiring such examination.
A patriot in a State that does not import or
export, discerns insuperable objections against the power of direct taxation.
Few, if any, stopped to consider that the improvements, buildings, and business were simply the outlay of capital brought from elsewhere, and as yet the settlement or town, as it was now called, had neither produced nor
exported capital of itself equal to half the amount expended.
Barton, the sagacious founder of the Western Electric, went to France and England to establish an
export trade in telephones, and failed.
There was an improving party assembled on the auspicious occasion, who knew what everything they had to eat and drink was made of, and how it was imported or
exported, and in what quantities, and in what bottoms, whether native or foreign, and all about it.