Bulk create contacts with tags

I'm using the API to bulk create contacts. But the documentation doesn't show a place to include tag for each contact.

https://developer.constantcontact.com/api_reference/index.html#tag/Bulk-Activities/operation/bulkImportContactsJSON

Instead, there seems to be a bulk task to update tags for contacts.

https://developer.constantcontact.com/api_reference/index.html#tag/Bulk-Activities/operation/postTagAddContact

This seems much more complicated, whereby I have to download the new contacts to get their IDs, and then make another request to update tags.

Is there a way to do this at once or an easier method?

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