reimporting

The European Commission has stepped in to investigate Volkswagen sales in Italy, but large-scale reimporting is appearing all over.

Pharmaceutical companies bitterly oppose the reimporting of their products from overseas, saying it would pose unacceptable risks to consumers, who, the industry says, would not know what they were buying or from whom.

While there is no longer protection in the federal copyright law for the pricing differentials, the major publishers are still trying to stop the reimporting of texts priced for foreign markets, mostly through contract language forbidding foreign wholesalers to sell to American distributors.