Import replacement is the process by which peripheral cities begin to replace goods and services that were formerly imported from more advanced cities.

The economy finds its place in the international economy: goods formerly imported are produced at home; new import requirements develop, and new export commodities to match them.

Schenley had formerly imported Guinness into the United States.

In 1944, Holka even designed and produced (in very small quantities) their own version of a cabriolet, formerly imported.

Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.

A close copy made by the Chinese company Norinco was formerly imported into the US by Interarms as the Model ATD.

Import replacement occurs when a city begins to locally produce goods that it formerly imported, e.g., Tokyo bicycle factories replacing Tokyo bicycle importers in the 1800s.

Formerly imported by Waffen Werks in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The little of these vegetables that was used was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders.

The Food and Drug Administration maintained a standing order to seize certain products formerly imported by one of his companies through Canada.