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to import goods back into a country that have previously been exported from the same country:
• US firms can gain tariff exemptions for products exported from the USA, processed abroad and reimported to the USA.
— reimport [riːˈɪmpɔːt ǁ -ɔːrt] noun [countable]* * *
Ⅰ.reimport UK US /ˌriːɪmˈpɔːt/ verb [T]► COMMERCE to import goods back into the country where they were made, or from which they were previously exported: »What percentage of cars produced in the UK for foreign companies were reimported for sale in the UK?
► IT to copy back into a computer program something that you previously removed : »To solve the problem we need to export the images and then reimport them into the document.
Ⅱ.reimport UK US /ˌriːˈɪmpɔːt/ noun COMMERCE► [C] something that was exported from a country and and then brought back in: »There's a growing flow of reimports to the EU.
► [U] the process of bringing back into a country something that was previously exported from there: »20% of these goods are intended for reimport.
Financial and business terms. 2012.