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Recent Examples of shipmentThe expansion of the loophole for tariff-free shipments of goods nearly a decade ago gave rise to Temu, Shein and other low-cost online retailers offering items straight from Chinese factories at unfathomable discounts.—Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 3 May 2025 However, the exception expired at one minute past midnight, which means nearly 4 million duty-free shipments a day will now be subject to a tariff.—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 2 May 2025 Nationwide, ocean container freight bookings for U.S. imports from China declined 22% during the week of April 14 compared with the previous week, and were down 44% compared with the same period last year, according to Vizion, a container shipment tracking company.—Ali Martin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025 Modi pointed out that although destocking caused part of the previous quarter’s weakness, P & G’s shipments were in line with consumptions in March.—Pia Singh, CNBC, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for shipment
Yamasa spun off its gambling device business in 2020 and today focuses its core enterprise on plane and cargo ship leasing, solar farms, and the American rental market.
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Jaime Moore-Carrillo,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 May 2025
Unfortunately, the Planetary Alliance gang insist on treating Murderbot like one of the team, inviting it to ride in their transport vehicle (instead of the cargo bay, where SecUnits usually travel) and giving it a crew uniform to wear when its armor is damaged.
In Houston, a Post Oak Hotel package offers to helicopter guests to the Johnson Space Center to meet a NASA astronaut who’ll take them behind the scenes, including mission control.
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Kathryn Romeyn,
AFAR Media,
12 May 2025
And, later Monday, White House aides said the shift was not on all China imports; low-dollar packages from online retailers like Shein and Temu would actually see their surcharges jump in June.
The Naugatuck train station is a small plexiglass box with a single bench, a lone dot in the expanse of the concrete parking lot, just across from the loading dock of a post office.
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Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
There’s a small receiving room for customers to pick up or drop off bottles and a loading dock for the larger orders.
The abducted man was apparently the father of someone who had made a packet in crypto.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 May 2025
About 500 units of the salad were mistakenly packaged with a sealed packet of parmesan cheese crumbles instead of a packet of crispy onions, the FDA said.
One example can be as simple as shipments that are missing bills of lading or origin documents.
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Forbes,
Forbes,
1 June 2021
According to bills of lading and other records provided to the San Antonio Express-News by officials at 23 food banks, CRE8AD8 delivered about 147,000 boxes total to food banks.
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