Speculators do play an important role in setting the price of oil and other raw materials.
Iron, coal, limestone and other raw materials went in one end and finished automobiles came out the other.
At a briefing later, Goodyear said China was proving to be a strong market for iron ore, alumina and other raw materials.
China fears that if the takeover were successful, the combined firms would have a stranglehold on the world's supplies of iron ore and other raw materials.
For the past decade, Beijing has been shaping its foreign policy around securing long-term low-cost supplies of oil and other raw materials that it needs to sustain its economic development.
He also thinks the company and its rivals should benefit significantly from being able to pass on the increasing cost of rubber and other raw materials because their prices were, in fact, stabilizing.
Admittedly these gains for developed economies are being partly offset by higher prices for oil and other raw materials, which China also needs to import (of which more in the next article).
American downturns have often caused the prices of oil and other raw materials to slump, but this time China's surging demand is propping up prices and fuelling booms in Brazil, Russia and the Middle East.
The restoration signals a perpetuation of the criminality that has infected every corner of the Russian government and the economic stagnation that has kept it dependent on exports of oil, gas and other raw materials.
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And it means that high oil prices and rising costs for commodities like steel, copper and other raw materials are finally resulting in higher prices for things like machinery, bicycles and coffee-makers the stuff that companies and consumers buy.
The new pipelines will follow the route of the old British-built Burma Road, which still carries timber, gold, gemstones and other Burmese raw materials north to China and brings in cheap manufactures.
But China is not the only power interested in securing greater access to Latin American raw materials and other resources.
Once they have bought raw materials and other inputs, they must make their products before exporting them to a destination country.
China runs a deficit with most of its trading partners, which supply oil, other raw materials and industrial components, and makes up for it by running large surpluses with its U.S. and European export markets.
Certainly, the ties go well beyond the supplying of military might on one side and raw materials on the other.
The loan component of MyMela offers visitors to our site the chance to make zero-interest loans to artisan groups who use these funds to make capital improvements, buy raw materials and train other workers.
So just to mine, we have to develop (a) technologies to mine orders of magnitude more quickly than currently exists (b) with autonomous robots that (c) are capable of self-replication from scratch, that is, by smelting metals and fabricating the other materials necessary from the raw materials of Mercury.
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Rising costs for raw materials like steel and plastic are one reason Chrysler and other automakers had a tough year in 2006.
Alaska is a very sensitive subject in all the other 49 states when it comes to the extraction and transport of energy and raw materials whatever the wishes of its citizens might be.
The contention is that China's export restrictions on raw materials, which discourage the sale abroad of coke, zinc and other industrial commodities, are conferring "unfair preferences" in favor of its own manufacturers.
The company, which currently gets most of its rubber from a plantation in Liberia, is also exploring other natural materials for producing the raw material for tires, including Russian dandelions and a native Southeast bush called guayule.
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Workers pumped raw materials into one end of his River Rouge plant and drove Model Ts out the other.
One problem facing the company, whose other brands include Sprite, Fanta, Dasani and Minute Maid, is another rise in the cost of raw materials, including sweeteners, juices, metals and plastic.
The East Asian countries are big importers of raw materials, so the slump in their economies has pushed down the prices of oil and other commodities such as metals and timber.
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