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Import buses automatically suck items out. Unless you're thinking of interfaces. Although a wooden pipe can feed into golden pipes and those into an interface.
As far as I know, only GregTech machines are sided like that. It shouldn't have a problem pulling out of the top. That said, I usually use the top for interfaces, so I might be wrong.