Does @import in CSS result in additional http requests?

Question

I have an ecommerce site that has about 8 CSS files linked from the header - resulting in 8 separate http requests to the server. I consolidated all the CSS files into 1 big

Answer 1

Yeah you will go back to a request per each stylesheet while using @import.

Your best bet is to minify and consolidate the css into a single file for deployment. But you can still develop with seperate files.