The steelmakers insist they will have to pass on these cost rises to their customers.
Addressing the cost rises is "daunting", says Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
Typically, UK companies struggle to pass on cost rises to their customers because of intense competition in the markets they are selling into.
Conversely, if a currency is cheapened, the nominal cost of everything rises.
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Over the next 15 to 20 years, however, as the number of retirees grows and the cost of drugs rises, his plan would become increasingly expensive.
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If a central bank creates too much credit, the nominal cost of money eventually rises and investment patterns are skewed.
As the ratio of retirees to workers grows and the cost of health care rises, Medicare and Social Security will eventually suffocate the budget.
Some governments are becoming understandably sceptical about such claims as the cost of accommodating them rises, and are pushing the universities towards more applied work.
And second, if the cost of the power rises because of the expense of imported coal, these outfits are neither strong enough to absorb the financial hit themselves nor capable of easily passing it through by raising prices to customers.
What is news is that college remains a prized experience that, through increasingly frequent acts of private philanthropy and collective support, has been made far more accessible than at any time in history, even as the physical and technological infrastructure rises in cost.
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Eddie Teare said there could be more changes ahead following rises in the cost of university education.
The cost of treating obese patients rises as their body mass index increases.
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As the cost of goods and services rises, purchasing power is diminished if wealth is not increased at an even faster pace.
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Investment grade corporate bonds would also be affected as the cost of insuring those bonds rises with the risk and real possibility of future defaults.
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With colleges providing more campus goodies and paying professors more money, while student enrollment levels remain largely unchanged, the cost to educate each student rises dramatically.
Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.
Rises in the cost of non-seasonal foods put the main upward pressure on prices, though this was partly offset by supermarkets slashing the price of seasonal foods, as part of the ongoing supermarket price war.
Few Argentine politicians are prepared to pay the political cost of spending cuts or tax rises to pay off bondholders.
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Chinese workers seem willing to change jobs for a slight increase in pay in order to stay above inflation as the cost of living in coastal China rises.
Southern Europeans meanwhile would see their currencies plummet outside the euro, leading to rises in inflation and their cost of living as painful as the austerity they are protesting against.
When the first tranche of price rises hit, quadrupling the cost of some kinds of bread and shooting diesel prices up by 2, 000%, among other things, there was barely a peep from the public.
With this model, the cost and risk decreases while potential for success rises.
When the cost of oil or water or electric power rises, the company that uses resources most effectively will have an advantage.
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As the debt burden rises, so too does the cost of servicing the debt increase as a share of the growth the economy is capable of generating.
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And when sterling falls, as it has done, the cost of raw materials and overseas-manufactured components rises.
The company blamed the rises on a sharp rise in the wholesale cost of gas.
An aggressive approach to cutting the cost of prescribed drugs, after a decade of rapid rises, could cut 15% off the bill over two years.
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The researchers also predict more interest rate rises this year, but say that the cost of borrowing will peak this summer at 6.5%, well below the last peak of 7.5% in the summer of 1998.
Tenants are already facing rent rises of eight per cent this year under council cost-cutting measures.
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They may use that wiggle room to raise the cost of petrol, frozen for the past six years despite big rises in the world price of oil.
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