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import substitution industrialization (ISI) A trade or economic policy theory that advocates replacing imports with domestic production, on the principle that countries should reduce their foreign dependency through local production of industrialized products to create self-sufficient economies.
The definition of import is to introduce or bring goods from one country to be sold in another. 1  An example of import is introducing a friend from another country to deep fried Twinkies. 2  An example of import is a shop owner bringing artwork back from Indonesia to sell at their San Francisco shop.