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Le Bureau des douanes contrôle les **importations**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406289) [\#13406288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406288)) - Resolution on **imports** of garlic Résolution sur les **importations** d'ail ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1987339) - **Import** prices (EUR/ton) Prix à l'**importation** (en EUR/tonne) ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3716662) - Reports on exports and **imports** Rapports sur les exportations et les **importations** ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14636097) - Cheap **imports** will glut the market. Les **importations** bas de gamme vont saturer le marché. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#28499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28499) [\#11778441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11778441)) ## prix Used about 361 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 360). - They began to **import** liquor illegally to sell for high prices. Ils commencèrent à importer illégalement de l'alcool à vendre à **prix** élevé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#802816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802816) [\#1591863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1591863)) - Companies in the sector therefore had to **import** their requirements through third parties, which could increase prices by perhaps 15 per cent. Il a donc fallu importer les produits nécessaires en passant par des tiers, ce qui a pu majorer les **prix** de revient d ' environ 15 %. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7435348) ## certains Used about 46 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 46). - There are a number of food products we do not **import** from China, including poultry. Il y a **certains** produits alimentaires que nous n’importons pas de Chine, et la volaille en fait partie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556831) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We **import** coffee from Brazil. Nous importons du café du Brésil. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#23557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23557) [\#391280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391280)) - We **import** raw materials and export the finished products. Nous importons des matières premières et exportons des produits finis. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#23014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23014) [\#12635817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12635817)) - We **import** grain from the United States. Nous importons du grain des États-Unis d'Amérique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#247873](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/247873) [\#4541897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4541897)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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