Don't use @import to link the stylesheet. Its depreciated.
Use link instead of @import
Many people might not be aware of this but the usage of @import may cause some extreme performance problem when the site grows big. Even the people at W3C depreciate the usage of @import.
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Using @import within a stylesheet adds one more roundtrip to the overall download time of the page.
Using @import in IE causes the download order to be altered. This may cause stylesheets to take longer to download, which hinders progress rendering making the page feel slower.
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