Exactly my understanding! The Constitution did not mandate halting importation, it merely withheld Congression permission to do it until 1808. It could have withheld that power until an amendment changed it, but enough founders wanted slavery checked to put it in, and some didn't want it in, so they compromised on 20 years.
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